JI rally against price hike

Published March 27, 2005

OKARA, March 26: About 200 activists of the Jamaat-i-Islami’s women wing staged a protest rally here on Saturday. The rally, led by the JI women commission chief Afia Sarwar and district nazima (JI) Shahida Tufail, began from Waris colony and culminated at the press club. Earlier, the women also held a protest demonstration against price hike and lawlessness. The rally participants were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against price hike and lawlessness. The leaders, in their speeches, demanded that inflation, crime and unemployment should be controlled. They opposed the agenda of the present government and the proposed changes in the curricula, terming the Aga Khan Board a conspiracy to secularize the society. — Correspondent

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