Leader meetings
JI chief reaches PM House for meeting with prime minister: party
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman arrived on Tuesday at the Prime Minister’s House for a meeting with the premier, according to the party. The meeting regards the JI’s demand that the government abolish petroleum levies. The Centre and JI had agreed to form committees in early September — when the latter had planned a nationwide strike — to recommend measures to reduce the levy. Rehman was accompanied by a delegation including the party’s Deputy Emir Liaquat Baloch, Deputy Secretary General Syed Farasat Shah, and JI Islamabad Emir Nasrullah Randhawa, a post by the JI’s account on