JI has threatened to protest on the streets of uninterrupted power supply is not provided to residents of Haripur district
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: According to Dawn, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has threatened to stage street demonstrations and encircle the Peshawar Electric deliver Company (PESCO) headquarters if the company does not continue to deliver electricity to the people living in the Haripur region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Speaking to media on Wednesday, JI Haripur emir Tahir Atiq Siddiqui made the declaration. Qazi Tanzeelur Rehman, the general secretary of the JI district, and other guests attended a dinner he had earlier organized in honor of the recently elected Haripur Press Club.
According to the Dawn story, Siddiqui said that for the last three months, Pesco authorities had been conducting unannounced loadshedding twice a week across the area, which had a negative impact on local businesses.
He said, “The daily wagers serving at welding shops, grinding machines, marble factories, tailors’ shops and other small industries are the worst hit as the eight hours power outage deprives them of daily earning.”
If the Pesco officials do not immediately suspend loadshedding, Tahir Atiq Siddiqui threatened to take to the streets and the area around its headquarters. According to Dawn, he denounced the Haripur industrial facilities’ failure to enforce the Minimum Wage Act and their failure to pay workers a wage of 36,000 Pakistani Rupees (PKR) each month.
He also criticized the provincial administration of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for pushing the Haripur Tehsil Municipal Administration to hold demonstrations since it had not even paid its workers’ wages, causing the municipal body to become bankrupt.
Siddiqui said that hardly a single everyday item has seen a price decrease, calling the federal government’s assertion that it was reducing inflation a mouthful. He said that over the previous four days, the price of sugar had gone up by PKR 40.
