[DAWN] Senator 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.
says he has asked for a Parliamentary committee to investigate allegations that he politically influenced the job termination of a man who filmed his offloading from a PIA flight.
The video clip, filmed by former Gerry's Group General Manager Arjumand Azhar Hussain and showing irate passengers expelling Malik for a delay of a PIA flight, had gone viral on the internet and social media.
Hussain was fired from his job at the Gerry's Group earlier this week, with rumours circulating that the termination was the result of political pressure exerted by Senator Malik, who was the Federal Interior Minister from 2008 to 2013 during the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) led government.