In a complete about turn, Malik said Khan was an Indian national and India should handle the issues addressed by him. ...
12:12 PM, Jan 31, 2013
All Indian fishermen in Pakistani jails would be released soon, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday. Malik made the announcement after attending a meeting called by President Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal house. ...
06:35 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik is winding up his visit to India, but not before stirring up another controversy. Malik claimed Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Abu Jundal, who was allegedly present in the control room during the Mumbai attacks, is an Indian agent. ...
01:42 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Clarifying his controversial remarks on Babri Masjid, visiting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he never compared the 26/11 attacks with the demolition. "I was simply talking about the ugly events such as Mumbai and so many others," Malik said in a press conference, after his meeting with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. ...
03:13 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Pakistan's Interior Minister, who is in country for a three day visit, will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, his second day of the trip, but will not hold a meeting with United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. There has been no agenda set for the meeting with prime minister officially, but reports suggest that the two leaders may talk on the Sir Creek issue, apart from the...
09:35 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Visiting Pakistan Interior Minister met Sarabjit Singh's family and assured them of a visa to meet the jailed Indian prisoner. Sarabjit's sister, Daljit Kaur, said Malik assured he is confident of Sarabjit's release even though it may take time. ...
08:51 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who is on a three day visit in the country, has created controversy by claiming he is unsure whether Kargil martyr Captain Saurabh Kalia was killed by a Pakistani bullet or the weather. Within minutes of landing in New Delhi, Malik set off a storm with his comment on the case of Captain Kalia, who, along with others in his team, was brutally tortured and...
08:34 AM, Dec 15, 2012
As a debate raged over torture of Kargil martyr Captain Saurabh Kalia by Pakistan Army, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said he was not aware whether he "died of a Pak bullet or weather". ...
08:38 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik will pay a three-day visit to India from December 14 to operationalise the liberalised visa agreement between the two countries. "He is going to Turkey on the 12th (of this month) with the (Pakistan) President. He has written to me to confirm that he is coming to Delhi on December 14 and will be here till (December) 16th," Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said...
05:22 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Islamabad: A court on Monday suspended the Senate membership of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik over holding dual nationality, a media report said. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the case of Malik holding dual nationality of Britain and Pakistan, reported Geo News. Malik said that he had forfeited his British citizenship but he failed to provide sufficient documents to the...
04:29 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Sunday briefly blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to promote a contest on Facebook for blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stepped in to end the ban. The Information Technology Ministry said Twitter was blocked for publicising "blasphemous and inflammatory content". Calls for participation in the contest for blasphemous caricatures were being made on...
11:48 PM, May 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities today blocked access to Twitter in several parts of the country despite Interior Minister Rehman Malik's claim that no restrictions were being imposed on the micro-blogging site. There was no official word on the development but users from different parts of Pakistan, especially Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, reported that they were unable to access the site on their computers and mobile phones. The...
04:04 PM, May 20, 2012
Dubai: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed Interior Minister Prince Nayef as the new crown prince, the Royal Court said in a statement issued on Friday, signalling an orderly process of future succession in the world's largest oil exporter. "We chose His Royal Highness Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz as crown prince," said the statement, read on state television and carried on the kingdom's news agency SPA soon after midnight. It...
04:01 AM, Oct 28, 2011
Mogadishu: A spokesman for African Union peacekeepers backing Somalia's fragile government says his forces are on high alert a day after a suspected female suicide bomber killed the country's interior minister. Maj Paddy Ankunda said on Saturday that the AU force is on alert after al-Qaida-linked militants of al-Shabab vowed to carry out "brazen attacks deep inside enemy territory. Interior Minister Abdishakur Sheik Hassan was killed Friday in an explosion...
03:39 PM, Jun 11, 2011
The "accountability court" issued arrest warrants for Rehman Malik on Friday. ...
04:47 PM, Dec 18, 2009
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03:05 AM, Mar 30, 2009
