{"id":44231,"date":"2024-08-08T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44231"},"modified":"2024-08-08T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:42:34","slug":"ji-plans-to-march-towards-murree-road-amid-inflation-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ji-plans-to-march-towards-murree-road-amid-inflation-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"JI plans to march towards Murree road amid inflation protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-talks-with-ji-ends-in-deadlock-party-maintains-demands\/\"> Jamaat-e-Islami (JI)<\/a> has decided to march towards <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/voilent-crash-erupts-between-tourists-at-chinar-chowk-in-murree\/\">Murree Road<\/a> as part of its ongoing protest against inflation, especially the rising electricity costs.<\/p>\n<p>The party, staging a sit-in in Rawalpindi, completed the fourth round of its &#8220;confidential&#8221; talks with the government, though no concrete resolution was reached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ji-emir-warns-escalating-protests-across-country-if-demands-not-met\/\">JI Deputy Emir Liaquat Baloch<\/a> announced at a press conference on Wednesday that the party&#8217;s march will commence at 6 pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he emphasized that the sit-in is intended to relieve the public and is organized to reflect their demands. Baloch stated that while feedback from the government on the JI&#8217;s six-point demands has been received, no significant progress has been made yet.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the JI\u2019s ongoing protest calls for revisions to tax rates, a review of agreements with Independent Power Producers (IPPs), and reductions in electricity and fuel prices to ease the burden on inflation-affected citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Despite three previous rounds of talks between the government and the JI delegation, led by Baloch, no breakthroughs have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar acknowledged that some progress had been made and issues were being decided.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that a new round of talks would occur on Thursday and noted that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is addressing JI\u2019s demands, including a task force to review IPP agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Tarar added that the government is committed to reducing electricity prices, citing an Rs50 billion subsidy for consumers using up to 200 units of electricity over the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>Tarar also stated that the government would facilitate JI\u2019s march and confirmed the release of JI workers arrested in Sialkot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has decided to march towards Murree Road as part of its ongoing protest against inflation, especially the rising electricity costs. The party, staging a sit-in in Rawalpindi, completed the fourth round of its &#8220;confidential&#8221; talks with the government, though no concrete resolution was reached. JI Deputy Emir Liaquat Baloch announced at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":44235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20201,20202,19929],"class_list":["post-44231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-deputy-emir-liaqat-baloch","tag-independent-powers-producers-ipps","tag-ji-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44234,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44231\/revisions\/44234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}