It was lesson of the history that people resorted to violence after losing their trust on democratic system: Ameerul Azim

LAHORE, Nov 19 (SABAH): As Gwadar sit-in entered into fourth day on Friday, the Jamaat-e-Islami has called upon the government to listen the demands of the protestors and address their grievances.

“Thousands of the residents of the area are not making illogical demands. They have long been protesting for their rights but the authorities never paid any heed to the problems of the poor and deprived masses,” JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim said in a statement issued from the party headquarters Mansoorah on Friday.

He announced the JI would raise the issue at Islamabad’s sit-in scheduled to be staged on November 28. He warned the government against outcomes if it continued ignoring the due demands of the protestors. It was lesson of the history that people resorted to violence after losing their trust on democratic system, he said.

Meanwhile, the sit-in of thousands of people of Gwadar district of Balochistan on the appeal of JI Balochistan chapter Emir Maulana Hidayatur Rahman entered into fourth day against unnecessary check posts and presence of fishing trawlers in the area.

A large number of people are sitting at Gwadar Port main highways and they have refused to leave the site without fulfillments of their demands. The majority of the protestors were the local fishermen who say they lost their source of income due to presence of fishing trawlers in the area which came from Karachi for fishing with large boats having water nets. The outsiders, they say, squeezed the livelihoods of locals who possess small boats. The fish were disappearing from the coastal area due to unchecked and unauthorizedhaunting bythe outsiders, Maulana Hidayat said. The protestors said their small boats could not compete the trawlers.