Jamaat-e-Islami Threatens Nationwide Strike Over Petrol Price Hike

JI warns of countrywide strike if recent petrol price hike not withdrawn

LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Tuesday warned the government that the party could announce a countrywide strike if the recent increase in petrol and diesel prices was not withdrawn immediately. Addressing a press conference on the third day of the JI sit-in outside the Punjab chief minister’s House, Rehman said the public was already paying heavy taxes on every litre of fuel and could no longer bear the rising cost of living. He demanded that the government...

By [email protected] (Ahmed Faraz Khan)