JI rejects petrol price hike, warns of mass protests
July 17, 2021
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has strongly protested against PTI government for unleashing another wave of inflation over the already starving nation in blind following of IMF agenda.
JI Ameer Sirajul Haq rejected the recent rise in petrol prices, demanding the government to withdraw it and also bring down the prices of all basic commodities. In a statement here Friday, he warned the government against blindly following IMF agenda, burdening the already poverty stricken people with massive taxation and inflation. “JI will go for the anti-inflation and unemployment protest movement in every nook and corner of the country until the government controls the inflation and provides relief to the people,” he said.
JI workers protest against inflation, unemployment
July 5, 2021
LAHORE: Thousands of Jamaat-e-Islami workers Sunday staged countrywide protest day against inflation and unemployment, shouting slogans against the PTI government and demanding it to either improve economic policies for providing relief to the masses or step down.
Staging demonstrations on the appeal of JI Ameer Sirajul Haq, the protests were held all over the country at provincial, divisional, district and zonal headquarters. In Lahore, the protest was held on Multan Road outside the JI headquarters Mansoora, where JI Secretary General Ameerul Azeem, Lahore Ameer Zikrullah Mujahid and others addressed the protesters.
Ameerul Azeem lamented the government practice of continuous mini-budgets round the year, saying annual budget is presented once a year all over the world but Pakistan is the only unfortunate country where people are subjected to frequent price hikes and inflation. “Not a day goes by without the gov