August 16, 2026
Jamaat-e-Islami held simultaneous sit-ins in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta against the petroleum levy and inflation. Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman called the levy a "jagga tax" and repeated the demand for petrol at Rs225 a litre.
August 9, 2026
JI chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has announced sit-ins outside the Chief Minister House in Punjab and Governor Houses in the other three provinces on August 16, escalating the party's campaign against fuel prices and the petroleum levy.
August 8, 2026
Petrol fell Rs3.19 on Friday. The diesel levy rose Rs1.21 the same day, having risen Rs1.44 the day before. Aflatoon on a week in which the price of relief was carefully set at slightly less than nothing.
August 8, 2026
Jamaat-e-Islami staged protests, sit-ins and rallies across the country against inflation, fuel prices and the petroleum levy, blocking national highways in Sindh, Balochistan, KP and Punjab. The party chief has called a march on Lahore for August 9.
July 10, 2026
Jamaat-e-Islami held nationwide demonstrations on July 10 against the petroleum levy, rising fuel prices, and what its chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman described as the government's failed economic policies. Rehman said the government is collecting Rs118 per litre in taxes on petrol while offering consumers a Rs1.97 reduction — a cut he termed "shameful" and "a joke." JI also raised the LPG price crisis, noting the officially fixed rate of Rs241/kg is being sold at Rs500/kg in the market.
March 19, 2025
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has announced a nationwide protest on Friday against American-backed Israeli atrocities in Palestine. He stated that Israel, with U.S. support, committed the worst acts of fascism in Gaza, where 48,000 Palestinians, including a large number of women and children, have been martyred. “Thousands of people are still trapped under the rubble, while the number of injured has reached hundreds of thousands,” he added. “Gaza is facing a severe humanitarian crisis, with extreme shortages of food and medicine.” Hafiz Naeemur Rehman further announced that rallies would be held across all major cities of Pakistan
February 7, 2025
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman confirmed that his party will observe February 8 as the “black day”. Addresssing a press conference in Lahore, Rehman said: “Many of the people sitting in the parliament due to the Form-47. The government came into power through rigging. The opposition is also not interested in running the campaign on the basis of Form-45.” “We will announce a big march following the black day,” he said. He lamented the ballooning inflation, saying, “Ramazan is around the corner but the inflation is increasing continuously.” “The prime minister is making claims of witnessing the drop in
January 16, 2025
Jamaat-e-Islami Emir, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, stated the Gaza ceasefire agreement was a significant victory for the people of Gaza, stating that it marked not only Israel’s defeat but also a setback for the United States. Commenting on the agreement, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman remarked, “Netanyahu had vowed to erase Hamas from existence, yet now Israel has been compelled to bow before Hamas and sign a truce.” He added that Netanyahu initiated one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the Middle East but ultimately had to yield to Hamas. “This is not just Israel’s defeat; it is also America’s,” he
August 28, 2024
Listen to the article Bangladesh’s new transitional government on Wednesday lifted the ban on the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing Islami Chhatra Sibir and “all related organizations”. The ban was imposed in the final days of the rule of now-ousted ruler Sheikh Hasina. “The government … revoked its earlier order dated August 1, 2024, banning Jamaat e Islami Bangladesh,” the order read. “It will take effect immediately.” Jamaat-e-Islami, which has millions of supporters, was barred from the polls in 2013 after supreme court judges ruled its charter violated the Muslim-majority nation’s secular constitution of 170 million people.
August 2, 2024
Bangladesh banned the Jamaat-e-Islami party, along with its student wing and affiliates, on Thursday, calling the party a “militant and terrorist” organization as part of a nationwide crackdown after weeks of violent protests that left most of 200 dead and thousands injured. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her allies have accused Jamaat-e-Islami, along with its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir and its affiliates, of inciting violence during recent protests over the government’s job quota system. The Home Office announced on Thursday that the ban came into force under an anti-terrorism law. Since July 15, at least 211 people have been
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