KHAIRPUR, May 15: Jamaat-i-Islami's general secretary Liaquat Baloch has blamed the president, prime minister and 'other forces' for the Abbottabad operation and said that holding parliament session in-camera was a mistake.

“It should have been an open session,” Mr Baloch said while talking to reporters here on Sunday.

He criticised PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif's demand for a judicial commission into the Abbottabad operation and said the decision about the inquiry commission should have been taken by parliament.

It was a matter of grave concern that law-enforcement agencies arrested people in Balochistan and Sindh and then bodies of these people were found. The agencies must produce arrested people in courts and treat them in accordance with law, he said.

Mr Baloch said the government had failed in curbing the menace of target killings in Karachi. MQM should be made accountable for such killings.

“MQM cannot stay out of power for long,” he said, adding that he did not consider it to be a genuine political party.

He said his party had condemned the killing of journalists in Mirpurkhas and recorded its protest along with journalists at the Jacobabad press club.

JI has decided to hold protests in Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi against the “do more kill more” and the Abbottabad operation and a national level protest in Islamabad.

Answering a question about the house-listing exercise in Sindh, Mr Baloch said people had complaints about it and his party had criticised it during its Rabita Movement in Karachi.

When asked about Z.A Bhutto case, he avoided to make comment. Mr Baloch said that a dictator was ruling the country when 9/11 took place and his wrong policies humiliated the nation. The dictator's rule had ended but the present government was pursuing his policies which were causing an unprecedented increase in prices and unemployment, he said.