KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Karachi chapter staged protest demonstrations in Karachi’s Shahrah-e-Faisal against the prevailing power crisis in the city and consistent issuance of inflated bills to consumers by K-Electric (KE).
Addressing the sit-in participants, JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman said, “We are giving three- day’s ultimatum to Sindh and center. If the concerns related to KE remain the same, the sit-in will be arranged in different parts of the province”.
He said, “Our protest is peaceful and in line with democratic norms. We have always held peaceful public gatherings against civic bodies over injustices to citizens,” said JI chief added.
Naeem further said that he invites every party and its workers, whether from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) to join our protest as it is a common cause of every citizen.
“I appeal to the traders’ community and people from all walks of life to participate in the protest against the KE’s anti-consumer attitude,” he added.
He also asked those PTI leaders who had been holding a sit-in outside the KE headquarters here to organize a similar protest in front of the PM House, arguing that no action was being witnessed from the federal authorities against the power utility’s actions.
He said that protests against K Electric will continue till illegal load shedding and undue over-billing from Karachi is stopped.
He said the government gave a subsidy of Rs 90 billion in two years to the KE despite non-payer. He appealed the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take action against K-Electric to bring relief to the people of the city.
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