ISLAMABAD, March 31: Interior Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat on Wednesday accused Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal of patronizing the terrorists holed up in Wana.

Talking to reporters after inaugurating the National Police Academy housing project, the minister said terrorists hiding in Wana were involved in suicide attacks on President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi, bomb blasts in Karachi and a terrorist attack in Quetta.

"The MMA should cooperate with the government and help it net the terrorists," he said. In reply to a question, Mr Hayat said the government could not give 'a free hand' to terrorists on the demand of any group.

He said the MMA had been exploiting the Wana situation to make political gains instead of cooperating with the government in flushing out the terrorists from tribal areas.