By IRNA,
Islamabad : Former Amir Jamat-e-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Thursday strongly condemned the bomb blast at Ashura procession in the city of Karachi and termed it the activity of the enemies of Islam.
Talking to IRNA, he stressed the need for forging unity among Muslim world to counter conspiracies against Islam.
“America and Israel were behind the attack and their motive was to light the fire of sectarianism”, he added.
43 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Pakistan’s largest Ashura procession.
Unknown people attacked government buildings, markets, banks and torched vehicles in Karachi after the deadly suicide attack.
People, angry at bomb attack, burnt a main market, 15 vehicles, a police station, two banks and office of the local government, police said.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that participants of the Ashura procession did not involve in the violence and some hidden hands were behind the incidents.
He said a joint investigation team has been constituted to investigate the violence.
President Asif Ali Zardari, and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani have also appealed to the masses to remain peaceful after the bomb blast.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, condemning role of the US in the world politics, said that the US always stands behind plots against Muslims.
He appealed the Ulema and scholars from all schools of thought and sects to foil the nefarious designs of the enemy through a complete unity in their ranks.
The religious leader demanded of the government to change its policy of friendship with the US.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad regretted that the US has made Pakistan its colony without respecting its sovereignty.
He blamed Pakistan government for yielding to US pressure instead of showing trust in its own people.
“US cannot be our friend as it has been involved in plotting anti-Pakistan conspiracies”, he viewed.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that the US is supporting the separatist movement in Balochistan. “The US is against the Islamic ideology of Pakistan and against our nuclear program”, he believed.
“The US is also involved in creating unrest in Iran’s Sistan province to affect Iran-Pak relations”, he viewed.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad criticised the leadership of Muslim world, saying that leaders of Muslim countries have become tools in the hands of the US.
He added that the overall misery of the Muslims is due to the cooperation of Muslim leaders with anti Islam powers.
Pakistan, the country with the second largest Muslim population in the world, has seen serious Shia-Sunni violence.
Almost 77 percent of Pakistan is Sunni, with 20 percent Shia, but this Shia minority forms the second largest Shia population of any country, larger than the Shia majority in Iraq.
In the last two decades, as many as 4,000 people are estimated to have died in sectarian fighting in Pakistan.