PTI Chairman Imran Khan condemned the attack and said police was busy in giving protocol to the leaders and their families, while there was no security for the masses. He said attack on the innocent people were the live examples of the so-called good governance.JI Ameer Rao Muhammad Zafar and Provincial Naib Amir Rao Zafar Iqbal condemned the deadly attacks terming it a conspiracy to trigger civil war in the country and justify continued US interference. They said Islam did not permit attack on minorities’ worship places. They said the minorities in Pakistan had always been secure and Islam made it state responsibility to protect them.They said since long the JI had been saying that an excuse and justification was being created for military operation in South Punjab. A new term of Punjabi Taliban had been coined and it was made a terror. Therefore, it could not be ruled out that these attacks were a conspiracy to pave way for military operation in South Punjab for which the US had been pressing for quite some time. This was a plot to pit the people and the armed forces against each other in Punjab as well. They urged the masses to forge unity in their ranks to foil this conspiracy. Makhdoom Javed Hashmi,MNA and Senior Vice President of PML-N expressed deep grief over the loss of lives in the attacks and offered his condolences with the bereaved families. OML-Q Leader and former Federal MInister for Food and Agriculture Alhaj Sikandar Bosan said the deadly attack could be halted if the Punjab government showed seriousness towards the security of the people. He said provincial intelligence agencies were busy in political activities instead of keeping eye on law and order situation. He demanded of the Punjab government to support the families of the dead and injured generously. Peoples Party leaders Begum Nasim Chaudhry MNA, Senator Malik Salahuddin Dogar, Dr.Akhtar Malik, Malik Ahmed Hussain Dehar,Malik Aamer Dogar MPAs said terrorists were planning to destabilise the country but their mission would not be succeeded. They said their party stood with the grieved families and determined to defeat the terrorists. MQM Multan division leader Karamat Ali Shaikh strongly condemned the militant attacks on the worship places of Ahmadi community and called upon the government to take adequate measures to protect the minorities.He said the MQM had been warning the Punjab government about the threats being given to the Ahmadi community centre in Model Town, Lahore, for more than a year.
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