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 Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
on Tuesday linked the release of confessions made by hit mans involved in the violence in Bloody Karachi with a formal permission granted by the Supreme Court, DawnNews reported.
Mr Malik informed the media that more than 100 hit-men were tossed in the slammer and all of them had admitted to their crimes.
He claimed that peace had fully been restored in the port city.
The interior minister said that an investigation team was going to be constituted to probe networks of banned outfits operating from jails.
He said that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had been directed to launch a countrywide operation to stop the use of mobile phones and internet service being provided illegally to the prisoners in different jails.
"There are reports that jail inmates are using these facilities in connivance with the jail authorities," he added.
The interior minister also held a meeting with President Asif Ali
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... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
at the Bilawal House.