ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: MNA Kurram Agency Sajid Hussain Turi on Saturday rebutted the impression that Mehdi Militia or Haideri Taliban had claimed responsibility for the attack on a bus stop in Peshawar and asserted that extremists were trying to fuel sectarian violence in the country by launching a blame game.

In a statement issued here he said the Shia community in the country was strongly condemning terrorist attacks and suicide blasts and its clerics had issued unanimous religious decrees against the ignoble practice.

Dispelling the false impression that some Shia organisations took revenge of Parachinar blast by attacking Kohat bus terminal in Peshawar, the lawmaker said there was no organised militant wing of the community and maintained that extremists were misguiding people.

He asked the government to initiate inquiry into the attack that had killed 17 people including two children on Thursday, so that actual perpetrators could be exposed. He also demanded an inquiry into Parachinar blast that had killed 43 people.

In a statement issued here Mr Turi said people of Kurram Agency had always cooperated with security agencies in war against militancy while people in other tribal areas had fought against the military.

“I want to inform the government and the people at large that extremists are trying to spread confusion after getting defeated. There is no militant wing in Shia community and extremists are about to be eliminated,” he maintained.