Author: Sohail Ahmad (Sohail Ahmad)

JI chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman
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JI hardens Lahore sit-in into three-stage campaign, ties end of protest to withdrawal of petroleum levy

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami has escalated its eight-day occupation of a central Lahore protest site into a phased national campaign, with Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman announcing that the sit-in will not be lifted until the federal government withdraws the petroleum levy, and setting out a sequence of shutter-down strikes, city protest camps and an eventual long march...