ISLAMABAD – Interior Minister Rehman Malik has advised PPP parliamentarian and former information minister Sherry Rehman to leave the country if she wanted to keep safe from religious extremists.
A source told Pakistan Today on Thursday that Malik telephoned Sherry, who is also in the middle of the controversy over blasphemy laws, to leave the country at the earliest because “fanatics are hell bent to take her life due to her views on blasphemy laws”. Malik cited intelligence reports that warned that extremists were after Sherry’s life and advised her to go abroad for the time being. The source said Sherry, however, declined to leave the country. She told Malik that she would not be attending the National Assembly session on Thursday due to inadequate security in the federal capital. She also told Malik that she felt more secure in Karachi rather than Islamabad.
