Pakistan Electricity Hike
Pakistan: Jamaat-e-Islami to protest against hike in electricity prices today
Peshawar, Pakistan: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) members are going to demonstrate across Peshawar province in Pakistan on Friday against the hike in the rates of electricity and imposing unjustified taxes and fuel price adjustment in bills.
Provincial president of the party, Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, gave the call for protest at all the district and tehsil headquarters of the province.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the JI leader said that the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had been looting the people in the name of different taxes, reports The News International.
The fuel price adjustment in electricity bills is a unique manner to loot the poor masses, he added.
“The fuel price adjustment is illegal and they would challenge it in high court,” he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
He said it was completely a matter of concern that a person who was using just 28 units of power was subjected to a Rs 4000 bill.
“This is the height of injustice,” he said.
"The government has been looting the people of this province in the name of fuel adjustment,” the JI leader added.
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