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| May 12 convictions could have prevented Karachi blasts: JI |
| 2007-10-21 |
| Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Ameer Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui has said that blasts Thursday night were an attempt to hold back the ongoing political process in country and the inquiry into this violence would yield nothing. “It was quite astonishing that despite the government’s claims to have provided the latest jamming devices, the bombs went off,” he said. He was of the opinion that the outcome of the inquiry into the blasts would be the same as that of the Nishtar Park bomb blasts, the May 12 mayhem, the mini bus G-7 target killings and the murder of JI activists during the bye-elections in May 2004. “If the people behind the May 12 mayhem had been exposed and punished, the PPP rally blasts might have not taken place,” he told Daily Times. He expressed the hope that the government would expose the people behind the Oct 18 violence and that justice would be done. “There are people who need the status quo in the country by halting the political progress with such violence but they should not forget that halting political progress is tantamount to a silent revolution,” he opined, adding that the Sindh government should be ashamed of what had happened on Oct 18 and should quit. Pakistan has reached the brink of a “sea of blood” and the law and order situation would be a main question during the forthcoming general elections. “It is very sad that as the daughter of Z A Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto has joined hands with alien forces and it is on record that the US Secretary of State was directly involved in Benazir Bhutto’s return,” he said. “We support suicide attacks in areas where Muslim are held slaves but in Pakistan where the doors of dialogues are open, the suicide attacks are condemnable. We want to finish them because we believe that the culprits should be dealt with under the existing law.” |
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