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.
said that foreign elements along with traitors within Pakistain are trying to destabalise the country, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to the media outside the parliament, Rehman Malik said that everyone knows where the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
is and that by arresting Malik Ishaq, the Punjab government has shown responsibility.
When replying to a question he said that according to intelligence reports he had been getting, he had already warned over the past two weeks, that possible terrorist attacks could take place in the major cities of Pakistain.
He also said that strict action will be taken against beturbanned goons no matter where they are hiding in the country. He further stated that al qaida elements had managed to infiltrate into Pakistain, in the same manner as they have in Syria and Yemen.