ISLAMABAD, May 7: The Foreign Liaison Committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has termed the recent terrorist attack on a Karachi mosque a result of failed foreign policy of the government.

In a meeting held here on Friday, the committee members said the government's U-turn on Afghan and Kashmir policies had created resentment among the extremist elements, who were now taking revenge by carrying out terrorist activities in the country.

Those who attended the meeting included MNA Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, Senator Rukhsana Zuberi, Senator Enver Baig, MNA Sherry Rehman, MPA Farzana Raja, Khalid Shafi, Kashif Rizwi and Palwasha Behram.

Talking to Dawn after the meeting, the acting chairman of the committee, Senator Enver Baig, said the participants were of the view that the government had totally failed to provide security to the people and, therefore, it had no justification to remain in power.

Mr Baig said the meeting also took serious note of the photographs published in national and international media showing the US and British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. "We condemn this act of the foreign troops in Iraq and consider it a serious violation of the Geneva Convention," he said.

He said the party believed that such acts would create more hatred for the West in the Islamic world. The PPP senator said the meeting had decided to probe the "dubious" deal to purchase Boeing-777 aircraft for the PIA. He said the party would let the people know about massive bungling and about the fake off-shore companies.

A source told Dawn that the participants of the meeting had decided to form delegations, comprising PPP parliamentarians, to regularly apprise diplomats about the "ongoing political victimization" in the country. The PPP parliamentarians, he said, would particularly highlight the cases of Asif Ali Zardari and Pir Mukarram Shah.