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Fresh JI drive against PL aims to collect 2 million affidavits

Pakistan Published 26 September 2026, 05:19 · archived 26 Sep 2026

KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi has announced a fresh public mobilization drive from Saturday to collect two million affidavits demanding abolition of the petroleum levy (PL), which it termed an “extortion tax”, and an end to payments to Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Addressing a press conference at Idara Noor-e-Haq on Friday, JI Karachi chief Monem Zafar said protest camps would be established at 25 locations across the city from September 26 as part of a large-scale mass contact campaign. “Our demand is to abolish the extortion levy, get rid of the IPP mafia and fix the price of ...

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