Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday said he had refused an offer of becoming the caretaker Sindh chief minister extended by the party leadership and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House, Malik said he had expressed his inability to accept the offer for personal reasons.
He asked the Sharif brothers to stop defending Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ).
Malik said he had sought a meeting with Punjab chief minister to present to him proofs about the involvement of LJ in various acts of terrorism. “I have never related the Sharif brothers with activities of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, but when I speak about the arrest of Malik Ishaq, the two brothers start defending him,” the minister said.
“I want to remind Mian Sahib that an order was given to register an FIR against him in the Asghar Khan case verdict. How can he talk of honest leadership? I challenge him to come on TV with me, I would prove everything, even the case lying pending against him with NAB,” he said. He said al Qaeda, TTP and LJ had prepared a conspiracy to get the elections postponed by carrying out bomb blasts, adding that the Taliban and LJ had threatened that they would not let the polls to be held.
Malik said in the coming days, there could be a reduction in bomb blasts but warned that targeted killings could go up.
He claimed that he had got a copy of the conspiracy that was prepared across the border, adding that he was receiving threats from LJ on a daily basis. The interior minister vowed to eliminate LJ and its backers, adding that had the Punjab government took action against the banned organisation, there would not have been attacks in Quetta and Karachi.
He questioned why LJ was targeting Shia community in Karachi and Quetta, disclosing that 1,400 members of LJ were in Schedule-4.
Malik said that if the government considered it necessary, it would seek army’s help for conducting general elections and if terrorism was not controlled, holding polls would be impossible. He also rejected a news report that a house in Ministers’ Colony had been allotted to him.
Refused offer to become caretaker Sindh CM: Malik
