{"id":19855,"date":"2026-04-07T03:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19855"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:12:52","slug":"pakistan-cleric-calls-nationwide-protests-over-fuel-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/07\/pakistan-cleric-calls-nationwide-protests-over-fuel-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan cleric calls nationwide protests over fuel price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, has criticized the recent rise in fuel prices in Pakistan as \u201cunjustified\u201d and announced nationwide protests.<br>According to The News International on Tuesday, Rehman said in a press conference that his party would organize demonstrations on Friday in provincial capitals to pressure the government to reverse the decision.<br>He accused the government of mismanaging both domestic and international affairs and called for an in-camera session of parliament to address the situation.<br>Questioning official claims, Rehman asked where the oil shipments reportedly passing through the Strait of Hormuz had gone and whether they had been offloaded in Karachi or elsewhere.<br>The JUI leadership expressed concern after a two-day party council meeting, warning that rising fuel costs are worsening economic conditions.<br>Fuel prices in Pakistan have surged amid ongoing regional tensions following the Iran conflict, with the government struggling to stabilize the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, has criticized the recent rise in fuel prices in Pakistan as \u201cunjustified\u201d and announced nationwide protests.According to The News International on Tuesday, Rehman said in a press conference that his party would organize demonstrations on Friday in provincial capitals to pressure the government to reverse the decision.He accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19857,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855\/revisions\/19857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}