ISLAMABAD, June 1: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Kunwar Khalid Younus has criticized Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) for trying to get political advantage from the recent terrorist acts in Karachi. Talking to Dawn here on Wednesday, the MQM MNA said the JI had actually launched its campaign for the forthcoming local government elections by giving a strike call in Karachi.

Mr Younus regretted that instead of extending its cooperation to the provincial government in tracing the culprits, the JI gave a strike call. He said it was for the first time that a suicide bomber had been arrested. He expressed the hope that investigations with the injured terrorist would lead to masterminds behind the recent terrorist attacks in the country.

The MQM MNA said so far the government had only arrested the planners and executers of the terrorism plans and no mastermind had so far been nabbed.

Mr Younus also criticized the JI for holding the MQM responsible for the terrorists acts in Karachi. He said on one hand, the JI was accusing the MQM of carrying out terrorism and on the other hand, its own men had been arrested in the recent incident in which the Karachi corps commander survived an attempt on his life.

The MQM MNA said the sudden terrorist acts could lead to the postponement of the local government elections and it would benefit only the JI.