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Jamaat-e-Islami Demands Fuel Relief | Pakistan News
Government and Jamaat-e-Islami launch high-stakes talks over soaring fuel costs, as protests rage on at 30 locations for 19 days. Key figures including Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Rana Sanaullah meet with Jamaat’s deputy chief Liaquat Baloch to find practical relief solutions. Hafiz Naeemur Rehman unveils alarming stats: poverty up 33% in six years, motorcyclists paying 35% tax per liter of gas, and the government collecting a staggering 8 trillion rupees from petroleum levy — already exceeding this year’s target. Their core demands? Slash petrol prices, scrap the levy, cut electricity…
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