[Dawn] 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.
has ordered strict security measures all over the country to prevent acts of terrorism during Eidul Azha.
"I have ordered all the chief secretaries of their respective provinces to place police on alert," he said while talking briefly to media at State Guest House after holding a meeting with the office bearers of Pakistain Business Council (PBC).
He said the security issue during Eidul Azha was discussed in detail at Ministry of Interior on Friday in Islamabad and Police Department has been asked to boost security, particularly, around mosques, imambargahs and Eidgahs and places which could become soft targets of terrorists.
To a question, he said that Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was investigating the case related to the murder of a Saudi national and staffer of Saudi Consulate in Bloody Karachi in May this year.
Malik said cash reward will be given to any person who give any lead to the murder of the Saudi official.
About PPP-MQM relations, he said that MQM leader Altaf Hussain has successfully helped thwart attempts to derail democracy by holding rallies in favour of the government.
"PPP enjoys good relations with the MQM," he maintained.