Karachi: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has demanded a probe into a fire incident in New Sindh Secretariat building Karachi.

JI Sindh secretary general Mumtaz Hussain Sahito in a statement said that is seems that the fire may be deliberate to destroy some sensitive record.

He said that as it was being expected that after serious actions against corrupt bureaucracy in Punjab, their more corrupt counterparts would also be made accountable, this incident of secretariat fire needs a thorough probe.

He demanded for steps to safeguard government record at all costs. He asked to make public results of inquiry into this serious fire incident.