LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami chief and Senator Sirajul Haq has said the PPP and the PML-N are equally to be blamed for the MQM’s crimes as they have been taking the `fascist group’ as an ally in the government time and again.

Addressing a concluding session of the JI workshop for party workers at Mansoora here on Sunday, he said the PPP and the PML-N must explain to the masses where they had been when the MQM was killing innocent citizens of Karachi and the workers were being burnt alive.

He demanded that MQM leader Altaf Husain be brought to the country through Interpol.

He said it must also be determined in the light of the 21st Amendment whether or not the MQM was a terrorist group.

Mr Haq said those patronizing the MQM had proved through their action that they wanted to promote terrorism instead of bringing it to an end.

“The MQM had always been an ally of the government of the PPP and the PML-N and also during the rule of the generals”, he added.

Published in Dawn, March 16th, 2015

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