Dr Tariq Saleem, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab, alongside Chaudhry Ansar Mahmood inaugurated a major membership camp in Gujrat as part of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan’s Badl Do Nizam campaign, with party workers setting up similar camps across Punjab. The drive sees activists engaging citizens in streets, neighborhoods, markets and bazaars to invite participation and register support for the movement.
Those present at the Gujrat event included Dr Khalid Mahmood Saqib and Raja Naeem Khawar. Addressing the crowd, Dr Tariq Saleem highlighted how soaring inflation, entrenched corruption and high unemployment, together with repeated increases in petroleum, gas and electricity prices, have made daily life unbearable for ordinary families in Punjab and beyond.
Dr Tariq Saleem urged youth, women and senior citizens to consider Jamaat-e-Islami membership and take part in the organized, peaceful campaign for systemic change. He described Badl Do Nizam not merely as a recruitment exercise but as a democratic and ideological movement aimed at establishing a system based on justice, public relief and equal access to basic services.
Welcoming Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman’s announcement of a nationwide protest on May 1, Dr Tariq Saleem criticised the government for heavy fuel levies that, he said, amount to taxes of up to Rs. 107 per litre on petrol. He also pointed to multiple components inflating electricity bills — including GST, the Neelum-Jhelum surcharge, fuel price adjustments and capacity payments to IPPs — arguing that consumers are being squeezed from every direction.
Dr Tariq Saleem further blamed major parties for governance failures, saying administration by the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Peoples Party often exists more in advertisements than in tangible improvements on the ground. He called on the public to unite behind Jamaat-e-Islami membership and support the party’s mission to build a fair, transparent and people-centred system across Pakistan.
