Pakistain's de facto interior minister Rehman MalikPak 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.
, a close aide to
President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
, resigned from parliament Tuesday amid a controversy about his dual nationality.
The Supreme Court suspended Malik's membership of the upper house of parliament, the senate, June 4 for allegedly running for office while still holding British citizenship.
The court ruling disqualified Malik from his post as interior minister, but he stayed on as the prime minister's "advisor" on interior affairs.
"I have decided to resign from the Senate and have conveyed my decision to the party leadership. I am willing to fulfil any other responsibility which my party will assign me," he told news hounds in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Minutes before Malik's announcement, a bill was introduced in parliament to do away with the constitutional clause which bars MPs from acquiring foreign nationality. "I decided to shun my membership because people are attaching the proposed amendment in the dual nationality law with me," Malik said. "So I have given up my membership and will now openly campaign for this bill for the sake of 1.2 million fellow overseas Paks."