KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Karachi chapter on Friday staged protest demonstrations across the city against the prevailing power crisis in the city and consistent issuance of inflated bills to consumers by K-Electric (KE).

A statement issued by the party said that it held protest demonstrations at more than 100 spots in the city against the hours-long daily loadshedding, inflated bills and proposed increase in electricity tariff.

“Our protest is peaceful and in line with democratic norms. We have always held peaceful public gatherings against civic bodies over injustices to citizens,” said JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman while addressing the main protest demonstration held outside Masjid-i-Khizra in Saddar.

“I invite every party and its workers, whether from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) to join our protest as it is a common cause of every citizen. I appeal to the traders’ community and people from all walks of life to participate in protest against the KE’s anti-consumer attitude,” he said.

He also asked those PTI leaders who have been holding a sit-in outside the KE headquarters here to organise a similar protest in front of the PM House, arguing that no action was being witnessed from the federal authorities against the power utility’s actions.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2020