Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) declared Pakistan People’s Party(PPP), Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) responsible for the Karachi violence on Saturday.
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan urged the nation to demonstrate complete solidarity with the people of Karachi to foil international conspiracies against the country. He said that the PPP, MQM and ANP have converted Karachi into a battle field in which innocent people were killed every day.
Syed Munawar Hasan condemned the Sindh government decision to reverse the Commissionerate system within a month to clear the path for extortionists and target killers.
Munawar said the PPP government had to take bold decisions to bring stabilise Karachi or the entire country would suffer. He said that if a military operation had been a solution, the entire nation would have backed it. The JI chief said that the MQM and international mafia were active in Karachi and neither operated independently. HE claimed MQM support was essential to achieving the ‘heinous’ designs of the international mafia in Karachi.
He said that media had paid a heavy price bringing to light the facts, however, government had failed to protect journalists. He said peace could only be restored in Karachi by ending the atmosphere of terror. Munawar accused the MQM of freeing hardened criminals from prisons and inducting them in the police. He claimed these representatives were protecting fellow criminals instead of acting against them. The JI chief declared opening cases against the MQM the solution to Karachi’s woes. PTI central information secretary Umer Sarfaraz Cheema while condemning the bloodshed in Karachi accused the government of ‘lacking the will’ to deal with the situation. Cheema held extortionists behind the unrest. He accused the three major political parties in Karachi, PPP, MQM and ANP of failing to control the bloodshed. He claimed the failure indicated their involvement. He also said Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader had decided to visit Saudi Arabia instead of Sindh. He said it was time for the people of Pakistan to unite and oust corrupt, incompetent rulers.
