RAWALPINDI: Following the first round of negotiations with the government, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI)’s Naib Emir Liaqat Baloch declared on Sunday that the party will persist with its anti-inflation sit-in.
As the Rawalpindi sit-in entered its third day, there was increasing pressure on the government. A delegation of three people, including Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar, Amir Muqam, and Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, met with the JI negotiation committee at the Rawalpindi commissioner’s office.
JI Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman threatened on Saturday to take the sit-in against the nation’s exorbitant electricity costs and taxes to other regions if the government did not accede to his party’s demands.Baloch told the media that the first round of negotiations was conducted in a “pleasant environment” following the talks today.
“We laid out our demands before the government, and they will set up a technical team tomorrow (Monday) to look into them,” Baloch stated.
He went on to say that JI had communicated its goals to the administration, making it very evident that the sit-in protest was entirely nonpolitical and intended only to demand relief for the poor suffering from the plague of uncontrollably rising prices.
The politician stated that additional rounds of negotiations might be held, but the protest sit-in will go on until their demands were met.
