Federal Investigation Agency Career
Benazir Bhutto appointed Malik as the Additional Director-General of the FIA which then launched a secret war against the Islamist elements in Pakistan, which amounted to a direct attack on the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The Pakistani military was equally dismayed by reports of FIA contacts with the Israeli secret service, the Mossad, to investigate Islamist terrorists. The FIA leadership under Bhutto also angered Taliban supporters within the establishment, 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 Leghari after dismissing Benazir Bhutto on 5 November 1996 was to imprison Ghulam Asghar, head of the FIA, on non specified corruption charges, and Malik, Additional Director General of FIA, was also arrested. In 2011 Karachi University awarded him an honorary PhD. During his nine-year long exile in England, Malik obtained British citizenship. However, Malik stated that he gave up his British nationality in 2008 before holding public office.
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