KARACHI, May 4: The Pakistan People’s Party, Karachi division, on Thursday announced launching of a protest campaign on May 9 against the recent increase in petroleum prices, the proposed raise in power tariff and the rapidly growing inflation in the country.

According to the schedule, a rally will be taken out from Regal Chowk to Karachi Press Club on May 9 and the PPP’s women wing, Karachi division , will stage demonstrations in all five former districts of the city on May 10.

Protest demonstrations by PPP workers will be held in the formerly district West, district Central, district South, district East and district Malir on May 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19, respectively.

The announcement was made by the party’s city chief Rashid Rabbani, who chaired a meeting of the executive committee of PPP Karachi at the People's Secretariat here on Thursday.

The meeting was attended by MPA Rafiq Engineer, Raheel Iqbal, Khalil Qureshi, Syed Aijazuddin Shah, Qasim Baloch, Ismail Pasha, Pir Zaman, Najmi Alam, Farzana Baloch and other local leaders.

The meeting expressed its full support to the May 9 rally to be held in Sukkur under the auspices of the Anti-Kalabagh Dam Action Committee, and pledged that the PPP would play its due role in saving Sindh's agriculture and economy.

In a resolution adopted unanimously on the occasion, the government was asked to do away with its ‘illegal and inhumane’ policy of razing old villages and slums in Karachi.

—PPI