{"id":78264,"date":"2026-09-21T03:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/78264"},"modified":"2026-09-21T03:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:27:32","slug":"jamaat-e-islami-calls-off-karachi-sit-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/78264","title":{"rendered":"Jamaat-e-Islami calls off Karachi sit-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has announced the end of its sit-in outside the Governor House in Karachi, which was held against inflation and in demand for the withdrawal of the petroleum levy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for Jamaat-e-Islami, party workers would join the long march from Sunday morning. The party\u2019s long march will begin from Karachi.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JI Announces End to Karachi Sit-In | Breaking News\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ceOaP879W0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jamaat-e-Islami chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman will address party workers at Cantt Station. Subsequently, workers would participate in the long march by train under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The sit-in was part of a nationwide protest campaign launched by Jamaat-e-Islami against the levy imposed on petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Saturday warned that the movement for the abolition of the petroleum levy would turn into a drive to topple the government if the levy was not abolished.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the participants of the JI\u2019s sit-in at the Governor House on, he announced the winding up of the 35-day sit-in outside the Sindh Governor House, saying the protest movement would now continue with a train march from Karachi to Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more: <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/ji-back-step-talks-demands-not-met-hafiz-naeem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JI to back-step from talks if demands not met: Hafiz Naeem<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hafiz Naeem congratulated the JI Karachi workers, women, elderly people and young participants for sustaining what he described as a \u201chistoric\u201d protest against the petroleum levy and independent power producer (IPP) agreements.<\/p>\n<p>He said traders, industrialists, lawyers, religious scholars, teachers, students, poets, writers and people from different schools of thought had participated in the sit-in. \u201cThe centre of attention of the whole of Karachi was not the Governor House but the sit-in staged in front of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The party says the objective is to pressure the government to withdraw the petroleum levy and provide meaningful relief to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Despite negotiations between the two sides, Jamaat-e-Islami maintains that temporary relief is insufficient and that a reduction in taxes is necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/jamaat-e-islami-calls-off-karachi-sit-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has announced the end of its sit-in outside the Governor House in Karachi, which was held against inflation and in demand for the withdrawal of the petroleum levy. According to a spokesperson for Jamaat-e-Islami, party workers would join the long march from Sunday morning. The party\u2019s long march will begin from Karachi. \ufeff Jamaat-e-Islami chief Hafiz Naeemur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jamaat-e-Islami-Governor-House-sit-in-end-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":5976,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":5976,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78266,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78264\/revisions\/78266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}