Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has termed the attack on the PNS Mehran, Karachi ‘well organized terrorism’ and has alleged the involvement of US, India and Israel in the attack. In a press statement issued on Monday, he condemned the incident. He said that while the ‘foreign hand was playing with Pakistan’s existence’, the intelligence agencies were busy in securing US targets. He also alleged that Interior Minister Rehman Malik was playing the role of a ‘defence counsel’ by linking every terrorist activity with the Al-Qaida and the Taliban. Terming the Karachi incident as the biggest after the GHQ attack, the JI chief said that the ‘enemy’ was trying to destabilize the country to deprive it of its sovereignty.
He said, such a major and organized attack at a naval base reflected complete security failure. It seemed that there was none to defend this country and the enemy could attack anywhere. He said the rulers’ interests were linked with the US. Hasan said that three consecutive attacks on navy buses should have activated the intelligence agencies to trace the terrorists, which was however not done and the indifference of these agencies had resulted in such a colossal loss. He said that Rehman Malik had always denied black water’s existence in the country but the repeated terrorist attacks have proved that the CIA, black water and Indian agencies had established their networks in the country.
He said there were reports of arrest of four terrorists, and their interrogation could lead to the culprits’ network, however, the details of this enquiry would not be made public.
