PPPP should avoid blame game on Karachi blasts: Azeem
By Khalid Amin

ISLAMABAD—Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Senator Tariq Azeem has urged the leadership of Pakistan Peoples’ Party Parliamentarians to avoid entering intoblame game over Karachi bomb blasts.
Speaking in a PTV programme late Sunday night the Minister said that investigation into the incident is in progress and it will be inappropriate for anyone to impose responsibility of the act on any individual or institution without having any proof.
The Minister said so many precious lives of the Pakistanicitizens have been lost in the incident and it would beinappropriate for anyone to do politics on the dead bodies of the innocent people. The victims, either the bystanders, onlooker, policepersonnel or the PPPP workers, were the citizens of Pakistan and every Pakistani is grieved on this human tragedy, the Minister said.
He said that President General Pervez Musharraf has personally talked to the PPPP Chairperson to condole the loss of innocent lives. He said the perpetrators on identification would be punished accordingly. Tariq Azeem said that BB was warned earlier not only by the authorities at home but some friendly foreign countries had also warned her.
Prior to her return, she was informed that her life can be in danger he said adding this warning was based on well informed sources. He said that in recent past the PPPP Chairperson had issuedcertain statements relating to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and giving access to foreign forces to launch operation inside Pakistan’s territory in pursuit of terrorist.
In the prevailing circumstance, he said, she should have taken extra care.
To a question the Minister said that there is no weight inthe stance of PPPP leadership that political leadership has no other way to carry on political activity other than processions and rallies.
He said all over the world including India political processions are avoided in the circumstances after the events of 9/11.
The political parties can arrange public meetings at a specific location so that the security agencies could make foolproof protective arrangements, he said.
He said that there is media access in contemporary world andthe political leaders can remain in contact with people throughthis source.
The Minister said that during the processions the leadersare usually provided extra security cover and travel in bulletproof vehicles while the common people are usually victims ofuntoward incidents if they unfortunately take place.
So the politician should consider the fate of these innocent people while demonstrating their political power, he added.
He stressed upon the need to evolve a national consensus toensure that next general elections are conducted in peaceful conditions. To another question the Minister said that in case theNational Reconciliatory Ordinance is suspended by the Supreme Court, the cases against PPPP Chairperson would revive.
In such a situation it would be better if BB stays home to defend her position in the courts, the Minister added. The Minister said that if the PPPP Chairperson has written a confidential letter to President, she should have avoided to makepublic comments on it.
Now as she has made the letter public, she herself should unfold the three names that according to her were involved in anti-PPPP activities, the Minister said