LAHORE, July 7: Alleging that intelligence agencies are active in destabilizing situation in Karachi, the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-H) has offered unconditional cooperation to all the forces that can restore peace to the Sindh capital.

Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, information secretary Kamran Rizvi and Abid Jafrey said their workers were being victimized at the hands of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, now occupying Sindh Governor’s House, the Rangers and police.

“Raids are being conducted at the houses of our workers and since Nov 18, 2002, as many as 1,100 of them have been put behind bars without any charge.”

They said they had restarted their protest movement, suspended after torture of women activists by police, against the atrocities being committed by the government and its agencies.

They held Gen Pervez Musharraf responsible for the situation who, they said, had planted his stooges both at the centre and in Sindh only to safeguard his uniform.

“Either the army was wrong when it had recovered maps of Jinnahpur in 1992 from the Muttahida or it was wrong now when it is conducting operation against patriots people (MQM-H).”

They believed that some policy-makers were misleading the army to damage its repute.

They said they had always been in favour of solving the Karachi problem politically through talks and not through any operation clean-up.

Muttahida leader Altaf Husain had also been approached many times for holding talks to resolve various issues peacefully but he always rejected the offer, they said.

They claimed that the 1992 operation clean-up had been conducted at the behest of Altaf Husain who posed himself as a victim and regained his lost popularity.

They said now the whole Karachi city had been turned into a no-go area for their party workers as Rangers and police were chasing them on one hand while Altaf Husain’s men were hunting them on the other.