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.
said that recent killings in Bloody Karachi were not a result of sectarian strife and that involvement of a foreign hand could not be ruled out.
| Of course. How could it be otherwise? |
To a question, he said the PPP-led government's action against NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
was in accordance with the sentiments of the people of Pakistain. He added that the federal government had suspended NATO supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistain and also issued notice to US authorities regarding the evacuation of Shamsi airbase in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
within 15 days.
The interior minister said the international community must realise the fact that Pakistain had suffered a lot in the war on terrorism.
To another question about former foreign minister Shah Mehmood
WormtongueQureshi, he said difference of opinion was the essence of democracy.
"Political success is always decided through a public vote and holding a gathering of people does not matter," he maintained.