Describing the law and order situation by and large satisfactory in Karachi, Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Thursday called for banning Jamaat-i-Islami's off-shoot Islami Jamiat Talaba to pre-empt its ploy to trigger unrest in the mega city.
The party, a key ruling coalition partner, also released a white paper here at a news conference on the 'excesses' perpetrated by Jamaat and Jamiat against MQM activists. The document will be presented to President General Pervez Musharraf.
The six-page white paper, apparently, had colourful photographs of dead and wounded activists of the MQM on its outer pages.
MQM parliamentary leader Dr Farooq Sattar, flanked by another party MNA Iqbal Mohmmad Ali, reiterated that they were ready to revive the code of conduct, signed between All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisation and Jamiat in 2004 to reign in the situation in the port city.
He said that even an arbitrator, acceptable to both sides, could facilitate the code's implementation.
About the Nishtar Park tragedy investigation, he said that let the agencies and justice take their course.
"Justice delayed is justice denied and justice in haste can also be counter-productive," he remarked, when asked why after passage of so many weeks, no breakthrough had been achieved on tracing the culprits.
However, he was quick to add that the enigma of identification of a head, found nearby the site of the blast could lead to some solid clues to reach out to the perpetrators.
He requested the president, prime minister, governor and chief minister Sindh to clamp a ban on such elements, who want to destabilise the city peace and particularly spoiling the educational environment.
Dr Farooq did not agree with a questioner that it was MQM, which breached the code and levelled baseless charges on Jamaat and Jamiat. He described the two enemies of peace, progress and prosperity in Karachi and Pakistan at large. A task force, he revealed, comprising Jamaat's 'thunder squad' had been formed to play havoc with peace in Karachi as well as Sindh. He added that a campaign to malign his party was on across the country. MQM plans to open a party office each in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
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