KARACHI, March 12: Jamaat-i-Islami Deputy Chief Professor Ghafoor Ahmad has condemned the attack on a JI office in former district central, terming it a shameful act.

He asked Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders, such as Dr Farooq Sattar, to visit the office and inquire the facts by themselves.

Addressing a press conference at Idara Noor-i-Haq Prof Ghafoor pointed out that JI was a political and religious party, striving for the enforcement of Islamic order and the restoration of democratic values.

“Our past is bears testimony to the fact that the JI never resorted to violence, as the party believes in peaceful and democratic struggle even after the killing of dozens of its workers and senior leaders,” he added.

However, he regretted that the activists of the All-Pakistan Muttahida Students Organisation, the students’ wing of the MQM, ransacked the JI office and locked its doors from outside before fleeing.

Saying that those striving for democracy do not take the path of violence against other parties, he asked the parties which had won the February 18 general elections to take appropriate measures to maintain law and order in the city.

Earlier, JI Karachi Amir Mohammad Hussain Mehanti said about 12 activists of the APMSO had attacked the JI office and damaged computer, television, fax machine, furniture and the UPS.