Pakistan, Oct. 23 -- Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has said it will hold talks with the government on Friday regarding its demand to abolish the petroleum levy and on further high-level contacts between them.

The committee-level talks were fixed following a telephonic conversation between JI Vice Emir Liaqat Baloch and Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, according to a press release issued by JI on Thursday.

The JI has been demanding for over two months that the Centre abolish the levies - Rs114 per litre on petrol and Rs100 per litre on diesel - as the total prices have skyrocketed due to conflicts in the Middle East since March.

Friday's talks between the two sides' negotiating committees will take place at Punjab House in Islamabad, where they wi...