[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman 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.
told the National Assembly on Tuesday that authorities had tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
four activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LeJ) for their involvement in the deadly bombing in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Abbas Town area.
Malik told the NA that the Karachi bombing was a replication of similar sectarian attacks in Quetta. He claimed that a conspiracy was being hatched to delay general elections.
The interior minister said he had visited Karachi on Monday and had held meetings with law enforcement agencies to stop the recurrence of such incidents.
The interior minister said he would give a detailed statement in the National Assembly on Wednesday on the law and order situation in the country, particularly Karachi.
Malik again urged the Punjab government to take action against LeJ in Punjab province.
Speaking to news hounds, the interior minister said the LeJ was conducting its activities through supervision from Punjab. He urged the Supreme Court to inquire from the Punjab Chief Minister over why no action was being taken against the banned outfit in the province.
He said that if the forces of Evil could be controlled in Punjab, then terrorism could also be curbed in Karachi.
He reiterated that a list of suspects belonging to the banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization had already been sent to the Punjab government.