KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has introduced protest sit-ins at 10 completely different places throughout Karachi for Sunday, after the Sindh authorities prevented the occasion’s protest outdoors the Sindh Meeting by way of intense tear gasoline shelling and a baton cost, ARY Information reported.
JI Karachi Chief Munem Zafar introduced that the sit-ins will probably be staged at main arteries, together with Shahrah-e-Faisal, the Nationwide Freeway, and Korangi, amongst different key factors.
“The JI’s wrestle won’t be stopped,” the JI Chief declared, accusing the ruling Pakistan Folks’s Celebration (PPP) of “fascism.”
Zafar additional alleged that the police used expired tear gasoline shells relationship again to 2022 in opposition to the protesters, including that the PPP is unwilling to grant the folks of Karachi their due rights.
“Those that reside off our taxes are those throwing shells at us,” Zafar acknowledged. He emphasised that the occasion’s calls for embrace a strong native authorities system and the basic proper to reside safely for the residents of Karachi.
He famous that whereas the protest was underway, outlets on Burns Highway remained open, but provincial minister Sharjeel Memon had turned all the metropolis right into a “no-go space.”
Zafar concluded by saying that though “oppressive forces” tried to cease the sit-in, the occasion would return as deliberate.
