JI launches protest movement against inflation.

LAHORE -- Terming the federal budget anti-people and violative of the decision of the Federal Shariah Court, the Jamaat-i-Islami on Saturday launched a protest movement and announced a train march on Islamabad on June 26-27.

Addressing the first protest rally in this regard on The Mall, JI Emir Sirajul Haq said: 'We had demanded the government take steps to abolish interest as per the direction of the Shariah Court and in the light of the guidelines set in the Constitution. We had asked them to take visible steps to end inflation. But the government failed to meet the expectations of the people.'

He said the JI would not sit silent against anti-poor policies of the rulers and launch a train march on June 26-27. He warned the government to accept demands of the masses or get ready to go home.

Siraj said the JI had already warned that the incumbent government would continue the policies of the PTI regime. It had been proved that the three main parties were sides of the same coin and they had nothing to do with the welfare of the people, he said. The country could not go forward in the presence of the corrupt system and its protectors, he said. People, he said, must stand for their rights as their betterment was linked to the Islamic system.

Siraj announces train march

The JI, he said, wanted to give the country an Islamic model of economy. If voted to power, he said, the Jamaat would transform Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state.

Talking about blasphemous remarks by the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, he demanded expulsion of Indian diplomats from the country.

'The Pakistan government should...