PESHAWAR: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam will launch a protest movement against what it calls the bad performance of Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf-led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from next month.

The decision was taken in a meeting of JUI provincial executive council held here on Monday with Maulana Attaur Rehman in the chair.

The council expressed deep concern over prevailing situation in the province, especially kidnapping for ransom, price hike and poor governance.

Maulana Attaur Rehman told journalists that JUI would stage protest demonstration in Peshawar on January 26 against lawlessness in the province.

Protest rallies would be taken out in other cities and towns of the province, he added.

In Peshawar, Mr Rehman said, a sit-in would be organised outside the provincial assembly.

He said that provincial government had failed to protect lives and properties of the masses and local investors were shifting their investment abroad and to other parts of the country.

The meeting observed that coalition partners in the provincial government had started politics of agitation and sit-in to divert attention of people from real issues.

Mr Rehman said that the meeting discussed strategy for the forthcoming local bodies` elections in the province and decided that district chapters of the party could enter into alliance or seat adjustment with any political party or group.

Provincial leaders of the party would start visiting divisional headquarters from January 18.

To a question about Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013, Mr Rehman said that JUI had reservations over some clauses of the law and some of its clauses had already been challenged in the Peshawar High Court.

Mr Rehman also demanded immediate end to military operation in North Waziristan Agency and said that ongoing operation only affected general public.