Rehman Malik

Rehman Malik

Rehman Malik born 12 December 1951) is a Pakistani politician and Intelligence officer, former member of the Senate of Pakistan, and the former Interior Minister of Pakistan under the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani administration. He was upgraded to latter position from Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Affairs and Narcotics Control after he was elected in the Senate of Pakistan. He took the oath as the federal minister on 27 April 2009. His membership of the Senate, and so his position as Interior Minister, was suspended by the Supreme Court of Pakistan for holding dual nationality on 4 June 2012. He was born in Sialkot, Pakistan. He was Founder President of DM Digital Network with head office at Manchester, UK but he resigned after his appointment as Advisor/Minister to the Prime Minister for Interior. He has one only Brother Mr. Khalid Malik who is a successful businessman. He is a former bureaucrat who was also the security officer of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Benazir Bhutto appointed Rehman Malik as chief of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) which then launched a secret war against the Taliban supporters in Pakistan, which amounted to a direct attack on the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The FIA leadership under Bhutto also angered Taliban supporters because they allowed the extradition of Ramzi Yousef to the US for trial on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. One of the first acts of President Farooq Leghari after dismissing Benazir Bhutto on 5 November 1996 was to imprison Rehman Malik, the Additional Director General FIA on unspecified corruption charges.In November 1998, Rehman Malik termed the termination of his service by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif an act of retaliation because of the 200-page report, which he had sent to then President Rafiq Tarar, disclosing large-scale corruption of Sharif family. Rehman emerged as the 'deal broker' in Benazir-Musharraf reconciliation talks in Abu Dhabi in July 2007, and replaced Makhdoom Amin Fahim as the most trusted political lieutenant of Benazir Bhutto. It was also reported in The News that after Rehman Malik took over the role of top adviser and broker of Benazir on important matters ranging from politics to business, Fahim seemed to have become an obsolete political commodity.

On 30 May 2012,Pakistan's Supreme Court gave Rehman Malik a one-day deadline to prove that he has given up his British citizenship, in absence of which he would lose his membership of the senate. On 30 May 2012,a three member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry, was hearing the dual nationality case, and observed that the documents presented by Malik’s counsel did not have the declaration of the Interior Minister renouncing his British citizenship. Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s application to renounce his British nationality has been accepted by the Home Office and he is no longer a British national. On 4 June 2012, Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended Rehman Malik's membership of Senate of Pakistan over dual nationality. A three member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the dual nationality case and announced its interim order.