ISLAMABAD June 7: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has blamed the Sindh governor for the bad law and order situation in Karachi and described as only 'a half measure' the move to replace the provincial chief minister.

Talking to reporters in the lobby of the parliament house on Monday evening, deputy parliamentary leader of the MMA, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, said: "Things need to be improved at the centre first and then alone any corrective measure would work in the province."

"The Sindh chief minister was a weak man and anyone replacing him will remain equally weak in the presence of an MQM governor at the helm of affairs as he was squarely responsible for inflaming the environment in the city of Karachi," Hafiz Hussain said.

He suggested that a non-partisan person should be appointed as governor because, according to Hafiz Hussain, Dr Ishratul Ibad had become a controversial figure and had failed to fulfil non- partisan demands of his office.

He said that PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's political move to bring about a political change of consensus in Sindh should have been heeded instead of going for a half-cooked solution.

The MMA leader said Chaudhry Shujaat's offer to the People's Party Parliamentarians to join the political set-up in Sindh was a positive step and it would have helped to normalise the situation there.

He called for initiating a process of concrete dialogue among the stakeholders at the centre to make things better in Sindh, otherwise undemocratic forces which, he said, were waiting in the wings would intervene and take any action that they would deem fit.