Hafiz Naeem demands decrease in power tariff, removal of taxes

KARACHI: Jamaat Islami Karachi’s chief Hafiz Naeem has demanded decrease in power tariff and removal of taxes from energy bills, ARY News reported on Tuesday.

Jamaat Islami has called countrywide strike to protest against electricity bills on September 02, JI leader said in a statement.

“Why the elite being given free petrol and electricity, their large vehicles run three kilometres in a litre. They are getting huge salaries of one million, the officers’ expenditures are required to be curtailed,” Hafiz Naeem said.

“A house using a fan and three bulbs being issued 8,000 rupees power bills, where the people to having minimal salaries and wages,” JI leader questioned.

“No trader wants shutdown of businesses or industries, all traders and other citizens will voluntarily observe strike,” he said. “We will stage a sit-in outside the Governor House in the next phase of the protest,” JI leader said.

Hafiz Naeem said that the JI will step up its protest and will hold meetings in streets, neighborhoods and mosques to protest. “We will hold a big protest of women on August 31,” he said.

“People are killing their children and committing suicides,” he said. “We want decrease in power price and total removal of taxes from electricity bills,” he added.