| Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif blamed the government for violence in Karachi and praised people for ‘not taking part’ in the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) rally. Talking to a TV channel on Saturday, Sharif said that President General Pervez Musharraf tried to create a rift in the nation through this ‘tactic’. He said that only a few hundred people came to MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s rally. He condemned the attack on the Aaj TV office by unidentified men, saying that it was attack on the freedom of expression. |