HYDERABAD, April 8: Deputy Secretary-General of Jamaat-i-Islami Dr Farid Ahmed Paracha has said that although people are disappointed with the government but they will not welcome any “general's adventurism”. He said at a press conference at the press club here on Friday that the government had made the country a slave to the United States.

He said that suicide attacks on JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and on shrines were a conspiracy aimed at fanning sectarian riots.

The government's pro-US policies had failed, he said and alleged that America was trying to seek direct control of Pakistan.

He said that crisis of price hike, increase in power tariff and prices of petroleum products had multiplied difficulties for people. The country's resources were being plundered and people of Balochistan were paying a heavy price for the country, he said.

Mr Paracha said that extortionists and target killers were more powerful than former home minister of Sindh Zulfikar Mirza. The menace had spread across Sindh because the government had failed to stamp it out, he said.

He said that people of Sindh had paid a huge price for the government's policy of reconciliation, adding that several target killers had been arrested but none of them had been punished so far.

He said that the JI had launched a campaign to rid people of disappointment. During the campaign, 25 million people who had expressed agreement to the party's manifesto would be made members and non-Muslims would be made associate members of the JI, he said.

He said the government was planning to do away with the Higher Education Commission because it dared srcutinise fake degrees of parliamentarians of the ruling party.

The move had jeopardised educational grants of provinces and future of millions of students, he said.