DERA GHAZI KHAN/ RAJANPUR, May 24: Bitterly criticising elements “who have politicised a judicial matter,” President General Pervez Musharraf warned on Thursday that any attempt to give the issue an ethnic colour would be dangerous for the country.

Addressing two public meetings at the sports stadium in Dera Ghazi Khan and Farid Airbase in Rajanpur, he claimed that the Karachi violence took place because these elements (lawyers and opposition) had given the judicial reference a political colour. “Now they are trying to give it an ethnic colour, but I want to ask them to refrain from it, for it is dangerous.”

The president visited the two venues on the invitations of former president Farooq Ahmed Leghari and Sardar Nasrullah Dreshak.

At both places, air-conditioned tents were installed, the rent of which costs millions of rupees.

The president said that truth would prevail over falsehood. “The truth will win with the support of the people this government enjoys,” he told the audience a vast majority of which was formed by government employees.

According to APP, he termed the May 12 violence a conspiracy to “stop the wheel of development” and praised the people for being wise enough in rejecting it out rightly. He promised that the elements behind this conspiracy would be unmasked.

He said that suicide bombings were not permissible in Islam since committing suicide was a highly sinful act in the religion. He urged the people to bring such misguided people on track if they were living among them.

The country is facing threat of extremism from inside and people should reject these elements of extremism, he said, adding that those involved in suicide bombings were hurting Islam apart from killing fellow Muslims.