Peshawar, Oct. 24 -- Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has launched the third phase of its countrywide protest campaign against rising petroleum prices and what the party describes as an unfair petroleum levy, organising sit-ins, rallies and public meetings across several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as reported by The Express Tribune.

According to The Express Tribune, the demonstrations, held on the instructions of JI Pakistan chief Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, took place in Peshawar, Mardan, Nowshera, Swabi, Charsadda and Khyber. Party leaders stated that protests would continue until the government withdrew the disputed levy and introduced measures to ease the financial pressure on ordinary citizens. In Peshawar, district emir Bahrullah Khan...