LAHORE, Jan 16: Jamaat-e-Islami shoora has said that Gen Musharraf, federal interior minister and other government officials became suspicious by their statements following the murder of Benazir Bhutto, and government was made a party to the murder by daily changing its stance, destruction of evidences and other such issues.

Therefore, America, Gen Musharraf and his companions could not be absolved from the direct responsibility of Benazir's murder, said JI shoora in a resolution passed on Benazir's murder on Wednesday, the third day of its meeting at Mansoorah chaired by Qazi Hussain Ahmad.

The Shoora said due to government's suspicious attitude the non confidence over investigating authorities and demand to hold probe by UN has been getting stronger, and rulers had to call Scotland Yard to satisfy those demands. The resolution demanded that a national commission should be constituted comprising all the judges of Supreme Court who refused oath under PCO for the investigations of Beanzir's murder and ascertain the killers, besides collecting the figures and estimates of the loss of public and private property following the murder to pay for their compensation. After such a commission there will be no need to have UN, Scotland Yard and other foreign investigators.

The resolution demanded that Gen Musharraf and interim federal and provincial governments should immediately resign of by accepting responsibility of criminal negligence of the respective governments since police and other law enforcing agencies were not present to maintain order following the Liaqat Bagh incident.

It also demanded resignation of Sindh Governor belonging to a linguistic group who was directly responsible for the peace in Karachi and showed negligence which led to large scale destruction for many days. Shoora appealed to print and electronic media to highlight the unprecedented hospitality showed by people of rural and urban Sindh by serving the people of Punjab, Kashmir and NWFP etc trapped on highways and trains in providing basic facilities and conveying them to safer places. Besides, NGOs and civil society should acknowledge the role of Sindhi people and arrange for their due commendation and expressing gratitude.

The shoora appealed to all political and social organizations and the patriotic citizens to make a collective promise to stay away from the negative politics of making brothers fight against brothers, and to play their due role in undertaking indiscriminate relief work at the time of national crisis and catastrophes.

The resolution condemned using Liaqat Bagh incident for negative politics and making brothers fight against brothers, expressing concerns that at one hand government failed in protecting lives and properties of people by showing a criminal escape from the scene which left the country without any government for at least three days following the incident and on the other hand it registered cases after several days just to divert the public anger. Above all, the government continued to harass and victimize its opponents in this garb and that Sindh Governor could not be absolved from his responsibility of sixty lost lives and billions of rupees worth of property, by transferring a few officials, the resolution said.

Terming the Liaqat Bagh incident as one of the worst and saddest event of the history, whose pain was felt by every section of society, but the government's criminal negligence made it worse by allowing loss of sixty lives and billions of rupees worth of property caused obviously by anti social elements, but for which federal and provincial governments are directly responsible. The shoora showered praises on the people of rural and urban Sindh for establishing historic traditions of hospitality by protecting the trapped passengers of burnt buses and trains, taking them to their homes and treating them like guests for many days.


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