On the fourth day: JI calls off sit-in against K-E after dialogue with governor

Governor assures party delegation that he will meet demands within 15 days

KARACHI: After successful dialogues of the Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) three-member team with Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair, the party called off its sit-in on the fourth day.

Addressing the protesters on Tuesday, JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, who was leading the party's protest against K-Electric (K-E), announced that the governor has assured them that he will resolve all the issues within 15 days. "We will come back on May 17 and have dialogues with the governor again to see the process of the assurances he has made," said Rehman.

Rehman also said they will block Sharae Faisal and will conduct city-wide protests against K-E if the people do not get their rights within 15 days.



The governor called on Tuesday the JI leader for dialogues on the matter and a three-member team of the JI, under the leadership of Rehman, went for the talks. "The governor has agreed to the 17-point charter of demands that we presented," Rehman announced, addressing the protesters sitting on the Aiwan-e-Saddar Road.

The JI leader said they will meet the governor after 15 days on the same issue and keep fighting until their demands are met and the issues of the people are resolved by K-E.

"K-E has to change their ways to work with the people," Rehman said, adding JI will also raise their voices against the other issues of the people of Karachi.



Criticising the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), he said none of the provincial government officials bothered to have talks with them in the last four days. "PPP never approached us in these four days," Rehman said.

"When the Sindh government is running a campaign against load-shedding all over the province, then why are they ignoring Karachi?" he questioned, commenting that the city has been left to just earn revenues.