LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has expressed concern over deteriorating law and order situation in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“It seems the province is being pushed towards security crisis under a conspiracy,” he said in a statement issued here from Mansoorah on Thursday.

He said the prime minister and KP chief minister would be direct responsible if something bad happened in the area. He said people of KP were worried about the security situation in the Dir valley.

He said the PTI had been ruling KP for over nine years but it did nothing for the welfare of the public. He held the PDM and the PPP equally responsible for the destruction of the national economy.

He said the incumbent and previous governments had destroyed every sector and created multiple crises. He said the bad governance, corruption and ill-conceived economic policies were the root-causes of the problems. The country needed honest and dedicated leadership to pull it out of prevailing circumstances. He said along with inflation, unemployment and load shedding, the masses were also worried about their protection now.

He also reiterated demand to abolish interest-based economy, asking the government to withdraw appeal from the Supreme Court against the decision of the Federal Shariah Court.

Meanwhile, the JI will start countrywide protest movement against inflated bills from Friday.

The JI chief will address the central rally in Peshawar while protests demonstrations will be held in Islamabad and Lahore on Aug 15 and 17, respectively. The JI chief said the protest movement would continue until the government withdrew taxes included in the electricity bills. He said if a user consumed electricity of worth Rs4000, over Rs8000 were included in the bills in the form of different taxes.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2022