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Jamaat-e-Islami launches march towards Islamabad over fuel prices

Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami has begun a protest march towards Islamabad in response to rising fuel prices, according to Al Jazeera Global News.

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Adrian Cole
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Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party has launched a protest march towards Islamabad over rising fuel prices, according to reporting by Al Jazeera Global News.

The protest is directed at the cost of fuel, but the available reporting does not provide figures for the price increases.

The material also does not establish the march’s size, route, timing or participants beyond identifying Jamaat-e-Islami as the organising party.

The march has been launched towards Islamabad; the available information does not establish whether it has reached the capital.

There is no further information on disruption, violence, public support or any government response.

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