JI chief thanks PM for reducing power tariff

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman telephoned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday and thanked him for the recently announced reduction in electricity tariffs.

The prime minister welcomed the gesture and vowed to continue the policy of providing relief to common man as the government’s top-most priority, and said that Pakistan’s journey of development would continue.

“Despite difficulties, we give priority to relief for the common man and this mission will continue,” he said.

It may be pointed out here that the JI had staged protests and sit-ins in Rawalpindi and other parts of the country in August, last year, to press for reduction in electricity tariffs.

The protest move was called off after a negotiating team from the government assured the JI leadership that the IPPs would be engaged to review contracts to gradually reduce electricity prices.