May 17, 2007	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 29, 1428

ISLAMABAD, May 16: The administration of Lal Masjid on Wednesday held the government responsible for the carnage on May 12. And it decided to discontinue its dialogue with the authorities in protest against the killing of more than 30 people in Karachi and against the reported arrest of its activists here in the capital.

“The government supported the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in its bloody game in Karachi and humiliated the Islamic norms by arranging dances and songs at the PML rally on the same day in Islamabad,” in-charge of the mosque Maulana Abdul Aziz said during a meeting of Jamia Faridia and Jamia Hafsa clerics and students.

The students of the two seminaries demanded of the mosque’s in-charge to wage a jihad against the government as it was “reluctant to enforce Sharia in the country”.

Maulana Aziz said the government did not take any action against the MQM for killing innocent people but it celebrated the massacre by dancing and singing songs. “We cannot continue talks with such brutal people,” he said.

He said he had extended fully cooperation to PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain who had initiated talks on behalf of the government but the mosque administration was betrayed as a number of its students were recently arrested.

The in-charge of the mosque said the Capital Development Authority had issued a notification regarding reconstruction of seven razed mosques but it was rejected by the ulema as it was contrary to what was decided between the two sides.