JI Ameer Hafiz Naeem hints at starting ‘civil disobedience movement’ if demands not met

F.P. Report

RAWALPINDI: Hinting at launching a civil disobedience movement, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said on Monday that if the government failed to provide electricity to people at cheaper rates, the party could even go to the extent of toppling it.

Talking to the media outside the Governor House in Karachi, the site of the JI’s sit-in which entered second day on Monday, he said there could be similar sit-ins in Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta if the government did not meet the party’s demands.

The JI Ameer said that the country’s youth were now pinning their hopes on the sit-in, adding that the party did not want to let them down. “You just cannot stop our movement,” Hafiz Naeem said while addressing the government.

Thanking Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori for serving food and tea to the protestors, he advised him to adopt simplicity.

Hafiz Naeem accused the government of sucking the blood of the masses in connivance with the independent power producers (IPPs).

He questioned, why did the government not tax the rich and influential rather than burdening the salaried class with taxes?

“During the last 16 years, the PPP government in Sindh has done nothing except destroying the institutions,” he alleged.