JI stages 13 sit-ins against expensive electricity

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi on Sunday staged sit-ins at 13 major arteries across Karachi in protest against the government's failure to provide relief to masses in connection with expensive electricity and excessive taxation.

Funeral prayers for Shaheed Hassan Nasarullah, the head of Hizbullah in Lebanon, were also offered in absentia. JI Karachi Ameer Monem Zafar led the funeral prayers in absentia at the National Highway.

Monem Zafar while addressing the protesters at Malir, Kalaboard area of Karachi said that the nation and the rulers were standing on totally different positions when it comes to naked Israeli terrorism in the region.

Unfortunately, he said, the rulers of the nation were busy in conquering their own people.

He said the government has practically been sheltering the electricity mafia named as Independent Power Producers, he said while highlighting that the ruling regime was hands in gloves with the K-Electric in Karachi and IPPs in other parts of the city.

The JI leader said that Karachi -- home to over 30 million people -- became a hub of problems. He added that Karachiites have been facing electricity, water and gas crisis, and all sorts of civic issues.

The mega city has been handed over to criminals and mafias, he said, adding that tanker mafia, KE and street criminals have not left Karachi as a liveable city.

JI Karachi leadership and district heads addressed the participants of the 13 sit-ins held across Karachi. A large number of people from all walks of life participated in the sit-ins.

The participants, carrying placards and banners, chanted slogans against the ruling regime and all those responsible for irking lives of Karachiites.