JI’s membership drive from March 1

TIMERGARA: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Lower Dir chapter, on Monday announced that 15,000 youth would be registered as party members in the ensuing membership drive to be launched from March 1.

Speaking at news conference at Timergara Press Club, the JI Lower Dir chief, Aizazul Mulk Afkari, said that youth constituted 65 per cent of the total population in Pakistan that was why his party had declared 2016 as the ‘year of youth’.

He said that each union council in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been tasked to register 500 more youth as party members. Aizazul Mulk Afkari said that youth could send their names, national identity card numbers, union councils and districts to the JI code 9291 through SMS for membership registration.