Jamaat-e-Islami has announced it will set up more than 25 camps across Karachi for protests starting tomorrow (Saturday) as part of a series of demonstrations against the petroleum levy and to demand an end to prolonged load-shedding in the city. Friday's announcement - part of the Jamaat-e-Islami's continued campaign against the petrol levy - came days after Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman had announced that the party had postponed the next phase of its march on Islamabad and would remain in Multan until a meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Hafiz Naeem had said the Jamaat-e-Islami sit-in in Multan would continue until the meeting, reiterating that the party would not withdraw from its protest movement. Speaking to journalists in Karachi, Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Emir Munem Zafar said the series of sit-ins against the petroleum levy and excessive taxation was continuing across the country. He said that the party demanded that the levy be withdrawn.

The Jamaat-e-Islami leader also slammed K-Electric over power outages in the metropolis, claiming that the city was facing up to 18 hours of load-shedding, calling it a "collective punishment" for consumers because of some people who failed to pay their electricity bills. Zafar said only a small proportion of consumers were not paying their electricity bills; K-Electric should take action against those individuals. He demanded that the government intervene to end load-shedding in Karachi.

Zafar said the party would expand its protest activity in Karachi by setting up more than 25 camps from tomorrow, urging citizens to participate in the demonstrations.