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Foreign hands involved in Kohistan incident, says Malik
 [Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman MalikPak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. Saturday said that foreign hands were involved in the Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... bus firing incident. Talking to newsmen here after attending a meeting on law and order situation, Malik claimed that those involved in the incident have been identified, adding that the culprits will be brought to justice at all costs. "The list of identified persons will be handed over to local Jirgas who will hand over the culprits to the security forces," he said. Malik said nobody will be allowed to play with the law and order situation of Gilgit-Baltistan. He said the number of check posts will be increased in the area to maintain peace. The minister rejected attribution of the Kohistan incident to sectarianism. He also announced compensation of two million rupees each for the bereaved families of those killed in firing incident. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-11 |
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