Pak 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 Thursday.
"There were lot of allegations (by Afghanistan) that people come from Pakistain and when I went to Chaman border I observed a free-for-all," Malik told news hounds in Islamabad.
In January 2007, Pakistain installed a computerised biometric system on a trial basis to try to control illegal cross-border traffic at Chaman in insurgency-wracked 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...
province.
But on the second day, thousands of Afghan rustics attacked the border gates, forcing authorities to close the crossing. The protest was against the biometric system and a Pak plan to fence and mine parts of the border.
Further protests saw Pakistain to shelve the system.
Malik said last month that the system would be revived on November 30 due to complaints about Orcs and similar vermin crossing the border unchecked, but now said that Afghanistan had also agreed to log movement on its side of the border.
"We are going to do it by the end of current month and the good thing is that Afghanistan is now also doing it on their side of the border," Malik said.
Malik said the new system would begin in the last week of November.
"This arrangement would give us a registered log of all trucking activity as well as human movement so that we know who is coming in and who is going out."
Although he provided no detail on how it would be possible, Malik also said the two countries had agreed to close down all unofficial tracks across the border except the established crossings at Chaman and Torkham, further north.
Malik said he and his Afghan counterpart would hold monthly meetings "to tackle the incursions and other border management problems".
The United States has asked Pakistain to provide greater intelligence sharing to stop efforts by the Taliban and its Haqqani network faction to try to cross the border into Afghanistan and plan attacks.
The biometric system would issue border passes to people after recording their fingerprints, retinas or facial patterns for identification.
The porous Afghan-Pak border separates families and rustics, but also allows Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked Orcs and similar vermin to move with ease in their fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan and government forces in Pakistain.
A Pak official at Torkham, when contacted by AFP, said there was no firm date on plans to introduce biometrics at the crossing.