{"id":12127,"date":"2023-10-08T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/stage-set-for-ji-sit-in-in-front-of-sindh-governor-house\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:04:16","slug":"stage-set-for-ji-sit-in-in-front-of-sindh-governor-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/stage-set-for-ji-sit-in-in-front-of-sindh-governor-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage set for JI sit-in in front of Sindh Governor House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_98\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Jamaat Islami holding a sit-in in front of Sindh Governor House here at 5:00pm to protest against inflated petrol and power prices and price hike.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All preparations and arrangements have been finalized for the sit-in which will be led by JI Ameer Siraj ul Haq, a spokesperson has stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe JI sit-in will also express solidarity with oppressed Muslims of Palestine,\u201d party spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The protest camp has been installed and participants will reach the Governor House in a rally. Containers have been parked around the place.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Governor Kamran Tessori in a telephone call to JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem, has offered every possible assistance for the participants of the sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaat-e-Islami last month decided to stage protest sit-ins in front of all governor houses against inflated electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will stage sit-ins in front of governor houses in all four provinces and observe wheel-jam strike along with traders and transporters, if the government refused to reduce electricity bills,\u201d JI Ameer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen government purchases expansive electricity itself, why it shifts its burden on general public,\u201d Siraj ul Haq questioned.<\/p>\n<p>He also castigated power agreements with independent power producers (IPPs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will gather details of these contracts and will challenge them in the Supreme Court,\u201d Siraj said.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the government intends to hike the electricity price to 90 rupees per unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Jamaat Islami holding a sit-in in front of Sindh Governor House here at 5:00pm to protest against inflated petrol and power prices and price hike. All preparations and arrangements have been finalized for the sit-in which will be led by JI Ameer Siraj ul Haq, a spokesperson has stated. \u201cThe JI sit-in will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/JI-sit-in-karachi-sindh-lg-law-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}