KARACHI, June 6: By calmly fighting off hooliganism and terrorism, Jamaat-i-Islami Karachi had dissipated the environment of fear which had engulfed the city, said Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Sunday.

Addressing a gathering in Masjid-i-Quba, Federal B Area, the JI chief and Acting President chief of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) said the people of Karachi had shut the door on politics of extortion and terrorism.

He said that Shia ulema, by declaring the assassination of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and the bomb blasts in Hyderi Mosque and Imambargah Ali Raza 'part of a deep-rooted conspiracy', had foiled the designs of those behind these acts.

MMA leaders and the authorities had shown exemplary cooperation, he said, adding that Pakistani cities would now be presented to the world as places of peace, tranquillity, unity and solidarity.