[Pak Daily Times] Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman 'Nigel' MalikPak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. 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. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
on Monday failed to produce his British nationality renouncement certificate before the Supreme Court.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case pertaining to politicians holding dual nationality. During the hearing, the court told Anwar Mansoor, the counsel for Malik, to refrain from making arguments on assumptions and provide proof of his client's renouncement of British citizenship. The chief justice said that court does not recognise assumptions.
The counsel said Malik had applied for renunciation of British nationality on April 24, 2008, and had paid fee for it from the account of his wife Saeeda Rehman, but the name had wrongly been written Saeed Rehman. Justice Khilji Arif Hussain asked Mansoor, "Even if we suppose that fee was paid, what happened after that?" The counsel argued if his client had British citizenship why would he travel on Pak passport, and noted that several visas had been stamped on his Pak passport.
He argued that if someone acquired nationality of another country after becoming a parliamentarian then he/she would not lose their membership, but if the member held dual nationality before becoming a parliamentarian, then he stands disqualified.
The chief justice absorbed this was not a good argument and asked Mansoor to provide the attested relevant documents in accordance with the British law. Justice Khilji, meanwhile, asked the interior adviser's counsel to desist from presenting assumptions and submit proof before the court if his client had renounced British citizenship.