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| Malik apologises to Altaf over AJK seat adjustment |
| 2011-07-01 |
| [Dawn] 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 Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. on Thursday accepted discussing 'seat adjustment' in AJK legislative assembly's elections with Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...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) and apologised to the party's Chief Altaf Hussain, DawnNews reported. While talking to the media at Islamabad police lines, the interior minister accepted negotiating on two of the AJK legislative assembly's Bloody Karachi seats with MQM leader Farooq Sattar. Malik accepted his negligence on the matter which caused their coalition partners' 'political divorce' with PPP in centre and Sindh province. On Monday Sattar announced his party's decision to part ways with the Pakistain People's Party and sit on opposition benches in the National Assembly, Senate and Sindh Assembly in protest against the postponement of election on two Bloody Karachi seats of the Azad Jamu and Kashmire Legislative Assembly. But the most surprising announcement that the MQM leader made was of the resignation of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan. |
| Posted by:Fred |