JI achieved a lot from Islamabad sit-in: Naeem

MULTAN: Jamaat Islami Pakistan Amir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman Friday said they had achieved a lot from the Islamabad sit-in and 37 days had been left in the swift implementation of agreement signed with the government on reduction in power tariff and petrol prices.

Addressing a JI public meeting on Hamanyon Road here in connection with ‘Haq Do Tehreek’, he demanded a reduction of Rs14 per unit across the country instead of Punjab.

He warned that no Pakistani could bear the burden of IPPs and the rulers should minimise their luxuries.

He said electric bombs fall on the people every month adding that they had turned one Islamabad sit-in into many sit-ins.

He said the middle class, the poor and the businessmen were in dire straits right now. He said the government had made the whole country suffer from inflation and unemployment.

“It has become difficult for the government to implement the orders of the IMF. It has become difficult for government ministers and advisers to go out in public. They cannot hand twenty-five million people of Pakistan over to the insensitive people.”

He said Mian Nawaz Sharif announced reduction in the power tariff for two months and asked why he could not ask Shahbaz Sharif do this work for the people.

He said the people will get relief if the rulers reduced the prices across the country. He said the government could save four thousand billion rupees by bringing interest up to ten percent.