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.
accused the Sharif family on Saturday of 'robbing' 31 banks, development finance institutions and non-bank financial institutions of over Rs6 billion to build "their industrial empire".
The allegations, mostly rehashed version of old charges, came a day after PML-N chief
Nawaz Sharif... 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...
asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
to step down after conviction by the Supreme Court and threatened to use all options to send the government packing if the demand was not met.
Speaking at a presser at his office, Mr Malik alleged that the Sharif family had forced banks and other financial institutions to arrange the "staggering sum for their 19 industrial units".
With a pile of files lying in front of him, the minister claimed that he had in his possession all documentary evidence and threatened to file a reference with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) next week.
He suggested the NAB as well as the apex court to take note of what he called fraudulent extraction of money by the Sharifs. "I will be pleased to appear before the Supreme Court with all relevant documents."
Throwing the challenge of a live debate to Sharif brothers, he said he would offer himself to be hanged if he was proved wrong.
In reply to a question, Mr Malik said his life was under threat and he might be attacked, adding that copies of the documents were with his lawyers and 'the mission' would continue even if anything happened to him.
He said that although he had tried to avoid taking steps which could vitiate the political atmosphere, he had no option but to release the "first instalment of evidence of corruption involving the Sharif family".
Mr Malik said the People's Party was not "allowing me to bring this evidence" for the sake of promoting reconciliation, but alleged that Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, wanted that the Sharif brothers be exposed. "He (Chaudhry Nisar) has won and I have lost.
"I came to the rescue of my party after the other side started maligning the PPP leadership."
He alleged that the Rs6 billion default had forced Nawaz Sharif to join hands with former president Farooq Ahmed Leghari to dislodge the Benazir government. The deal had been finalised between the two during investigations into the Mehran Bank scam as both were beneficiaries, the interior minister claimed.
He alleged that Mr Leghari had sold his "barren land in Dera Ghazi Khan for billions of rupees".
Mr Malik accused the Sharif family of defaulting on payment of $32 million for paper manufacturing machinery leased from a British-based firm, Altowfeek Company, in Feb 1995.
The amount was paid after the High Court of Justice, Queen's bench division, ordered the British authorities to charge four properties owned by the Sharif family in Britannia. He alleged that the Sharif family was involved in money laundering and had deposits in 10 banks in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
. "I will shortly make public the trail of money laundering," he added.
In reply to a question, he claimed that Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
and
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
never had a bank account in Switzerland and no document in the Swiss case was genuine. He said the much-talked about necklace allegedly owned by Ms Bhutto also did not belong to her. The interior minister said he had with him an affidavit of the jeweller concerned to prove this.
About the PML-N's threat of long march to unseat the prime minister, Mr Malik said the PPP could also arrange such a march from Sindh to Lahore.
He agreed that the tiff between the People's Party and the opposition was harmful to democracy, but said that despite signing the Charter of Democracy, the PML-N wanted to take every possible step it believed could help topple the government.
"There were 8,000 NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) cases; why they (PML-N) didn't become party in the rest of the cases," he wondered.