[Dawn] Federal Minister for Interior 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 Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
on Monday revealed that activists belonging to political parties of the PPP-led coalition government of Sindh are to be blamed for the menace of extortion 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.
Malik said that activists of Pakistain People's Party (PPP), 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), Awami National Party (ANP) and other parties were involved in extortion in the metropolis.
Speaking to media representatives at the Quaid-e-Azam-International Airport, the interior minister also said that few parties were involved in the deteriorating law and order situation.
The minister also rejected the speculations that armed operations were only conducted in Lyari, adding security agencies have also raided offices of the MQM and other political parties in the violence-ridden city.
"If security agencies are attacked with hand grenades, they would not shower flowers in response," said the PPP leader.
Moreover, the minister said that national tragedies, like the Bhoja Air crash, should not be used for political gains.
Criticising Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) for opposing probe commission formed to investigate the crash, he blamed Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for doing politics on the tragic incident.
The minister claimed that the airline was awarded licence during
Nawaz Sharif's... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
government while ignoring the rules and regulations.
He said that the government is taking all steps for a transparent inquiry into the air crash.
He assured that action will be taken against those responsible in the light of inquiry report. "We should wait for it and avoid doing politics on the issue, he added.
To a question, Malik said that law enforcement agencies have set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a group involved in creating law and order situation in Gilgit, Bloody Karachi and Balochistan.
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
The interior minister also said that Ali Musa Gilani (son of PM Gilani) had arrived in the country to face allegations against him in the "ephedrine case."