JI to stage demo today to protest against rising inflation, unemployment

Asking the Karachi residents to join the protest demonstration today (Sunday), Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said on Saturday inflation and unemployment had broken all records under the regime of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

He expressed his views while addressing a party meeting in Korangi in connection with the demonstration to be staged this afternoon on New MA Jinnah Road to protest over the “skyrocketing inflation and the tsunami of unemployment”.

The JI central leadership in its recent Shura meeting decided to launch a countrywide protest movement against inflation and unemployment, and in this regard, a protest-day will be observed in all major cities, including Karachi, today.

Rehman held the government’s mismanagement, incapability and flawed policies responsible for the situation. He said that the federal government compiled the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 on directions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Before joining the treasury benches, the PTI leaders, including Chairman Imran Khan, had been repeating that joining the IMF programme would be tantamount to an economic suicide, but later they put the country and the entire nation at the disposal of the monetary institution, he said.

He said the prices of daily-life items, gas and electricity had been increased significantly but illogically under the rule of the PTI. He also highlighted the PTI government’s promise of 10 million jobs and its failure to deliver what its leaders had claimed.

Rehman asked the masses to join the demonstration at 4pm to show their anger and grief against the rising inflation rate. JI leaders Munim Zafar, Abdul Jameel, Abdul Hafeez, and others also addressed the meeting.