Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman was speaking to the media in Karachi. As the party's amir, he is the public face of its current political campaigning. The encounter was recorded with only the bare fact of the interaction, in Karachi, without any fuller transcript. What exactly he was asked, and what he replied, was not spelled out in the material at hand. Jamaat-e-Islami has used press meetings in recent months to attack inflation and the taxes stacked onto fuel and utilities. Karachi is one of the party's strongest urban bases, so whatever he says there travels quickly across the country. Any remarks tied to the petroleum levy would land while the party is already building a protest movement on that very issue.