Karachi
Demanding resolution of power tariff issues in Karachi, Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami political party has announced to hold a historic Haq Do Karachi Ko march on Friday, local media reports said.
The march will be held at Shahra-e-Qaideen in Karachi at 4 PM. The announcement of the march was done by Head of Jamaat-e-Islami (Karachi) Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rahman. Women, children, elderly and young people will participate in the protest.
From July 24, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Haq Do Karachi Ko movement will enter a new phase. The JI head said that they strongly condemn 6,000 monthly under sales tax in electricity bills by K-Electric. He added that they are with the business community and will announce the future course of action together with along with them very soon.
Earlier in March, Hafiz Naeem said that JI will hold a protest outside Chief Minister’s house after Eid.
Jamaat-e-Islami, Karachi, Ameer Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rahman had said that the Haq Do Karachi Ko rally is a movement for legitimate and legal rights of the people of Karachi against rural and urban feudal lords.
He said that if the protestors had reached the Governor House, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) should not think that there they can not reach Chief Minister’s house. We will protest at CM House after Eid, the JI chief had said, as per media reports.
He was addressing the grand Haq Do Karachi Ko rally, which began from Karachi’s Quaidabad area to put pressure on the government to give the city its due rights.
