KARACHI, April 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s Karachi chapter on Friday staged rallies and held corner meetings in different parts of the city against the government’s indifference towards miseries being caused to citizens through hours-long load-shedding, repeated increases in prices of essential commodities and uncontrolled surge in street crimes. Demonstrations were held outside scores of mosques after Juma prayers in response to the MMA’s call for a protest day.

Siddique Rathor, Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui, Aslam Ghauri, Abdul Halim Ghauri, Azizuddin Zafar, Allama Nazir Abbas Naqvi, Mohammad Hussain Mehanti, Laeeq Khan, Nasrullah Khan Shaji, Hameedullah Khan, Yunus Barai and several other MMA leaders addressed the participants of the rallies.

The main rally was held outside Masjid Baitul Mukkarram in Gulshan-i-Iqbal where Siddique Rathor condemned the government for doing nothing against the unendurable load-shedding despite having announced repeatedly that no load-shedding would be allowed in Karachi this summer.

The MMA leaders deplored that in this hot and humid weather, people were deprived of power and water.

The students appearing in SSC examinations were facing immense hardship in preparing for their papers in absence of electricity,” they observed, adding that the rulers and power utility were playing with the future of the students.

They also condemned the government for a surge in prices and street crimes.

They warned that people would take to the street to hold the rulers accountable for all their misdeeds.