KARACHI, May 16: Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday charged Jamaat-i-Islami and its student wing, Islami Jamiat-i-Tulba, of allegedly resorting to acts of terrorism in the city and urged the president and prime minister to take notice of the conspiracy to destroy peace of the city.

This was stated by the in charge of MQM coordination committee, Mr Anwar Alam at a news conference at Nine-Zero. He was accompanied by Ms Nasreen Jaleel, Mr Wasay Jaleel and others.

Mr Alam narrated an incident which according to him took place in Baldia education office around noon on Monday. He alleged that some hoodlums mounted an attack on the sub-unit office of the MQM and ransacked it.

He said that soon about 30 activists of IJT came to the office in a bus of Government College for Technology and started beating up four workers of the MQM who were connected with labour division and education.

After beating them ruthlessly they took away Aftab Ahmad, Afaq Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmad and Ghafoor to the GCT and subjected them to alleged torture. As a result of that torture, he said, Afaq Ahmad’s leg was broken while others sustained many injuries.

After beating them, the IJT activists dumped the MQM workers in bushes behind the GCT where they gained consciousness after three hours, Mr Alam said, adding that after being rescued they were now being given medical treatment.

Mr Alam recalled a recent meeting in Governor House in which Jamat-i-Islami’s naib amir Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, IJT representatives and representatives of MQM and APMSO had agreed on a code of ethics for maintaining peace in educational institutions and for avoiding any clash between student wings of the two political parties.

Mr Alam said MQM had done its best to keep its part of the bargain and for that it was even removing its own wall chalking. But he regretted the JI and its student wing had gone on a rampage and their armed activists kidnapped MQM’s labour division’s workers at gun point and subjected them to torture.

He said that the true face of the JI, which had accused MQM of running torture cells, had been exposed by this incident.

He was of the view that such activities were part of the conspiracy to postpone local government elections. He claimed that JI would not succeed in its “conspiracy”.