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Joint JI-govt committee to mull ways to expand fuel relief scheme: Ahsan Iqbal
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that a joint committee of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and the government will be formed to consider the expansion of the fuel relief scheme in the wake of the JI’s demands for the abolition of the petroleum levy. He was addressing a press conference in Islamabad after JI chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to discuss his party’s demand to provide relief to the public. On his part, Rehman declared that his party would march to Islamabad in protest of the petroleum levy in mid-November if the government did not announce any