KARACHI: Amid special transmission related to the election 2024 aired by a local TV channel, Pakistan’s top-notch journalists and political analysts acknowledged Jamaat-e-Islami and its Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman’s performance and political movements.

Analysts declared the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) as the most popular party of Karachi.

The politico-religious party has left behind its previous political pattern of joining hands with multi-party alliances following bitter experiences and decided to contest local and nationwide polls on its own election symbol “scale” (tarazu) in a bid to return to its original status and separate identity.

In the special transmission, prominent journalist Hamid Mir said: "The Jamaat-e-Islami claims its popularity among masses in several constituencies based on Plus Consultant’s recent survey. The political party’s popularity increased after the recent rainfall and a powerful social media campaign favouring the Jamaat-e-Islami.”

Another journalist Shahzeb Khanzada said “The latest survey after the LG polls stated that Karachiites made their top priority to elect JI and Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman instead of the PTI or any other party even though the former ruling party won several seats from the port city.

Senior analyst and columnist Mazhar Abbas opined that the heavy rainfall in the port city would give a political advantage to the JI Karachi after the party adopted a new strategy two to three years ago by focusing on raising a strong voice on core issues of the economic hub of Pakistan.

“Hafiz Naeem had been stopped from becoming Karachi mayor through rigging, whereas, Pakistan People’s Party leader Murtaza Wahab grabbed the mayoral post despite his lacked numbers,” another analyst Irshad Bhatti said while talking to the special transmission.