Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has appealed to the entire country to come forward on Sunday to show solidarity with the people of Karachi in protest against the controversial Sindh Local Government (LG) law.
Haq made the announcement while addressing the party’s sit-in being held outside the Sindh Assembly building against Sindh LG law aimed at taking away powers of the local government setup.
The JI sit-in has entered the eighth consecutive day.
Sirajul Haq in his address said that the progress and development of Karachi is progress and development of Pakistan. Pakistan can’t progress while keeping Karachi in darkness, he added.
He said that the JI’s struggle, be it in Karachi, Gwadar, Islamabad or Chitral is not against any political party, it was against injustice.
Comparing the domestic and international situations, he said the modern world is conquering new skies while in Karachi pipelines for sewerage and water supply are passing through the same channels.
He said that Faislabad, Sialkot and other cities of Punjab have developed and questioned that why Larkana, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Jamshoro and other cities could not progress despite the continuous rule of the PPP in Sindh.
Addressing the sit-in, JI Karachi chief Engr Hafiz Naeemur Rehman paid a rich tribute to resilient party workers.
