HYDERABAD, May 20: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (Arisar) is of the opinion that two intelligence agencies, one acting in support of President Musharraf and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the other working against the two, were involved in Karachi bloodshed.

The Sindhi nationalist party ‘regretted’ that Muttahida Qaumi Movement had been trapped by one of the agencies whose motive was to isolate MQM and jeopardise the peaceful atmosphere of Sindh.

Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday, the chairman of the organising committee of JSQM-A, Shafi Mohammad Karnani and senior leaders Abdul Wahid Arisar and Serai Qurban Khuhawar, said that the real heirs of Karachi were Sindhis and it was up to them to decide as to who should be accepted as local and who should be declared an outsider.

They regretted that despite being an ally of JSQM, the attitude of MQM towards Sindhis had been that of conquerors. Quoting instances, the JSQM leaders said that MQM had made Karachi a no-go-area for Sindhi youths by depriving them of employment for lacking domicile of Karachi.

They said that MQM was a part and parcel of the government with home ministry in their hands but many Sindhis were kidnapped and even murdered and the MQM did not express sympathies with them.

Not only this, they said, it appeared as if the MQM has become an integral part of the establishment as far as water issue, sale of Sindh's islands and demolition of Sindhi villages was concerned.

They announced that JSQM would convene a peace conference in the first week of June where MQM and ANP would also be invited and proposals and suggestions would be discussed to maintain lasting peace in Sindh.

They cautioned the people that conspiracies were afoot to spark ethnic riots in Karachi and called upon all the political parties and the residents of Karachi to foil the conspiracy.

Unlike Bashir Qureshi, leader of another faction of the JSQM, who has recently come out with unsympathetic statements about the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Arisar said Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry deserved respect as he was the only person in the judicial history of Pakistan who defied the orders of a president in uniform.