PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that foreign powers including a European country are trying to resolve differences between Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the government.

Addressing party office-bearers at Al Markaz-i-Islami here on Sunday, he supported action against criminals in Karachi and said that politics and extortion couldn’t go side by side.

“If the killers of innocent people are protected it means that bureaucracy in Islamabad is also involved in lawlessness along with MQM in Karachi,” the JI chief said. He added that people would not allow any foreign power and secret agency like CIA or RAW to intervene in their internal affairs.

JI provincial chief Prof Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, Senior Provincial Minister Inayatullah Khan and other party leaders also addressed the function. Sirajul Haq also demanded of the government to form a judicial commission to probe what he described ‘fake mandate’ in Karachi. He said that a particular group was imposed on the people of Karachi.

Supports action against criminals in Karachi

The JI chief said that their party had serious reservations over the present mandate in Karachi and it needed investigations through a judicial commission. He also demanded re-election in Karachi within two months. Sirajul Haq asked the federal government to continue operation in Karachi and announce a financial package for the port city. He said that Rs500 billion was required for the development of Karachi.

The JI chief said that people involved in killing of journalists and innocent citizens, extortion, dumping of Nato weapons and other criminal activities should be brought to justice. He said that such people did not deserve leniency and should be brought to book.

Without naming Pakistan People’s Party, he said that a political party would be held equally responsible for the lawlessness if MQM, which was allegedly involved in crimes and extortion, was accommodated in Sindh government.

The JI chief said that the office-bearers and workers of a so-called political group had confessed to the killing of journalists and businessmen but despite that the group was invited to rejoin the Sindh government.

Expressing concern over deteriorating situation in Balochistan, Sirajul Haq said that Balochistan had been turned into a ‘volcano’ and a large number of people had been residing in caves and mountains due to fear and insecurity.

He said that women were also protesting in Balochistan. He said that a political jirga would be constituted to bring annoyed Baloch people from mountains back to towns and villages.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof Ibrahim Khan said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been made centre of global conspiracies and foreign powers were active to safeguard their interests in the region. He said that people of Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suffered badly owing to the prolonged military operations and lawlessness.

Published in Dawn March 23rd , 2015

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