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JI announces Aug 16 sit-ins in provincial capitals to protest petroleum levy

Source: Dawn
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JI announces Aug 16 sit-ins in provincial capitals to protest petroleum levy
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LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan (JI) has decided to intensify its campaign against the petroleum levy and inflation, announcing simultaneous sit-ins in all four provincial capitals on August 16 to press the government to withdraw the levy. The decision was taken after extensive deliberations at a special meeting of JI’s central and provincial office-bearers, chaired by party chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman at Mansoora on Saturday. Rehman said the sit-ins would be staged outside the Punjab chief minister’s house in Lahore and the governor houses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan. Under the plan, the JI and its youth and women’s wings will participate in Independence Day activities on…

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