KARACHI, Feb 16: Leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and MNA Mir Aijaz Hussein Jakhrani said on Thursday that the violence in Lahore proved a nexus between the government and extremists.

People of Lahore must note that the ‘Chaudhry brothers’ had subjected peaceful PPP workers to an unprecedented state terrorism in April last in order to prevent them from giving a rousing welcome to their leader, Asif Ali Zardari. But this time, the same Chaudhry brothers extended tacit approval to arsonists to set public and private property on fire and malign the city’s reputation and culture, they said in a joint statement.

They said hundreds of buses, trucks, cars, buildings and other properties had been torched by the arsonists, sent by the Chaudhry brothers to join in the peaceful protesters.

The PPP leaders said it was strange that the government had kept a criminal silence over the issue of the blasphemous caricatures amid a situation where the entire country was burning.

They alleged that the regime was deliberately turning the peaceful protests violent in order to hide the weaknesses of its foreign policy.

They said that the PPP would go ahead with its peaceful protests and would not allow the regime to play with the life and property of citizens.—PPI