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India-Pakistan
Zardari directs Malik to remove MQM's reservations
2012-03-17
[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
on Friday has taken notice of Muttahida Qaumi Movement's
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) complaints of extortion and poor law and order situation in Bloody Karachi,
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
DawnNews reported.

Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said the president directed the Sindh government and Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik
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 Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
to take strict action against the criminal elements.

The president also directed the interior minister to proceed to Bloody Karachi and coordinate with the provincial government in redressing the grievances of the public and traders, in particular against extortion.

The MQM chief Altaf Hussain had also brought to the attention of the president the complaints of extortion in Bloody Karachi, the Spokesperson said.

The Pakistain People's Party (PPP) respects its coalition partners and will redress the concerns of the ally, the Spokesperson quoted the president as saying.
Posted by:Fred

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