JI stages protests in Sindh towns against price hike.

HYDERABAD -- Activists of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) staged a protest demonstration against price hike on the call of their emir Sirajul Haq here on Friday, led by JI leaders Abdul Waheed Qureshi, district emir Hafiz Tahir Majeed, Sindh JI Youth general secretary Zaheeruddin Shaikh and naib emir Abdul Qayyum Hyder.

The protests were also held in Phuleli Paretabad, Chohan Kanta, Kamaila Chowk, Cantonment and Effendi Town.

The leaders said that entrusting important responsibilities to an incompetent person could not be considered a wise decision.

The rulers should take some wise decisions, otherwise they would be ousted by the masses, they said, adding that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government had given people the gift of price hike from day one.

They maintained that prices of flour, sugar, petrol, electricity and gas had gone beyond the reach of the common man. They said the poor were facing poverty and youth were committing suicide due to unemployment. They also said the culture of obscenity was being promoted.

They said a certain religious community was being supported out of way and column of Khatm-i-Nabuwwat was deleted from Haj forms. They dubbed the present government as representative of mafias of flour, china-cutting, sugar etc. They said that different mafias were dominating the government and corrupt leadership had made lives of people miserable.

Workers of the JI in Sukkur and Jacobabad also took out protest rallies on Friday against increase in inflation, lawlessness and unemployment in the country as well as against the loans taken from the...