PESHAWAR: The opposition Jamaat-i-Islami has set three points agenda for its countrywide anti-government movement slated to begin on Nov 1 from Bajaur tribal district.

Addressing a news conference here on Wednesday, JI provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan said it was time to get rid of the incompetent, selected and anti-people government.

He said the party would hold its first protest meeting in Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur tribal district.

Mr Mushtaq said the anti-government movement would be based on three points, including price hike, unemployment and bids to amend the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat oath and usurp constitutional and financial rights of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Says protest will be against price hike, unemployment, bids to usurp KP rights

He said public meetings would be held in Buner on Nov 8, Upper Dir on Nov 15, Swat on Nov 22 and Lower Dir on Nov 29.

The opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement will hold an anti-government meeting in Peshawar on Nov 22. The Jamaat-i-Islami is not part of the PDM.

Senator Mushtaq said his party would hold protest rallies at the divisional and district level in the province.

He said the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party had followed the ‘IMF agenda and protocol culture’.

The JI leader expressed concern over the alleged kidnapping of the Sindh police chief to force him into signing an FIR against PML-N leader retired Captain Safdar at gunpoint and said the incident was condemnable.

He said the police, including Sindh’s, had rendered matchless sacrifices against terrorism but the kidnapping incident had demoralised the force as the police chief, who was responsible for the security of the entire Sindh province, was kidnapped.

Mr Mushtaq said the the incident showed that there was a state within a state and that strict action should be taken against the culpable people.

He said former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had levelled serious charges against the army chief and director general of the country’s premier intelligence agency and therefore, the Supreme Court chief justice should constitute a judicial commission under the chief justice of the Peshawar High Court to probe them.

The JI leader said the former premier had alleged that ballot paper and ballot box had no sanctity in the country and that results of the last general elections were manipulated outside polling stations.

He said the probe commission should also call both former and sitting army generals on the allegations.Mr Mushtaq said the country’s future could only be secured through civilian supremacy, parliamentary democracy and across-the-board accountability.

Published in Dawn, October 22nd, 2020