Jamaat-e-Islami to start protest movement campaign from Gujrat

ISLAMABAD, Jan 31 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan will start its protest campaign against the government from Gujrat on February 6 and will focus cities of northern and southern Punjab before holding sit-ins at five different points of Lahore on March 23.

JI Emir Sirajul Haq said the JI protest movement will prove the last nail in the coffin of the corrupt system and its protectors. He said the government and opposition sold the state bank to the IMF as both sides were unable to resist the pressure of the international lender.

The nation witnessed the PML-N and the PPP had made surrender before the IMF in past and now it was the PTI which put at risk the sovereignty of the country, he said in a statement issued on Monday.

JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim separately presided over a party meeting at Mansoorah to prepare schedule for the protest campaign and announced the sit-ins will be held in all district headquarters of Punjab from February 6 to March 27. The provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and KPK will be focused in next phase, he added. “We will hold the final march towards Islamabad after completing 100 sit-ins in all over the country.”

Ameerul Azim said thousands of people from all walks of life will attend the protests, demanding the government decrease 50 percent the prices of basis food items, remove state bank governor, take back mini-budget or get ready to face the public wrath.

According to the schedule, JI will hold sit-in in Sheikhupura on Feb 13, in Gujranwala on Feb 18, in Okara and Sahiwal on March 4 and in Faisalabad on March 5. The protest demonstrations will be held in Toba Tek Sing and Jhang on March 11 followed by sit-ins in Chiniot and Nankana on March 12 and Marach 13 respectively.