Jamaat-e-Islami warns that it will block entry points to Karachi

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Chief, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has warned that the party will block the five entrance points to Karachi if their demands are not met.

JI has been staging sit-in protests for the past 24 days in Karachi and last night the JI Karachi chief addressed the gathering and gave a two-day ultimatum to the provincial government to accept their demands for the withdrawal of a local government act recently passed by the Sindh Assembly.

JI Chief, Siraj-ul-Haq has also addressed the activists sitting in the protests on Sunday night.

He said that the battle over this issue would damage the Pakistan People’s Party.

He warned that there would be a high possibility that people would start marching on Bilawal House when Bilawal Bhutto Zardari himself would initiate his long march towards Islamabad on February 27.

Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman also warned that when the party’s sit-in protest begins at the entry points to Karachi, they would not allow any vehicles to pass the road except ambulances.

The bill was passed with amendments to the Sindh Local Government Act of 2013 last December 2021. In this bill, financial independence, which was allocated to the Karachi Municipal Corporation, would be taken back to the provincial government.

JI’s stance is that these amendments which were made under the local government act would weaken the local government organisation in the province.