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Malik challenges Qadri's claim of 'four million' joining long march
[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. 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. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
on Monday challenged Tehrik-e-Minhajul Koran (TMQ) chief Tahirul Qadri's prior claims that four million people had participated in his long march from Lahore to Islamabad.

The federal interior minister further said that the number of participants in the long march could not be greater than 25,000-30,000, adding that he would inform Qadri about the actual numbers when the latter would arrive in Islamabad.

The interior minister also threatened to issue a 'white paper' against Qadri and demanded that the latter leave Islamabad on moral grounds.

He added that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was probing the expenditure of the long march.

The interior minister further said that fool-proof security arrangements had been made for the long march and that the interior ministry had provided security for the long march as promised.

Malik has previously dismissed Qadri's long march as "nothing more than a blanket march" and a "suicide kaboom on democracy."

He has also accused the TMQ chief of attempting to derail the democratic process and postpone the upcoming general elections.

Posted by: Fred 2013-01-15
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=360105