Pakistani interior minister snubbed at military HQ

October 15th, 2009 Pakistan: Attacks won't deter fight against terrorISLAMABAD — Pakistan's interior minister says attacks against law enforcement sites in the east and northwest will not stop country from pursuing militants. Rehman Malik made the comments Thursday to state-run Pakistan Television as the drama continued to unfold in the city of Lahore, the site of three of the attacks.

September 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tuesday confirmed that Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, had been arrested, with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani saying the evidence against him would decide what action needs to be taken. The interior ministry can tell you the actual position but I believe he is in custody.

September 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Police in Islamabad raided a firm that provides security to US embassy in Pakistan and seized a lot of arms, the local news agency NNI reported Saturday. The Islamabad police said that 61 repeater guns, nine 30 bore pistols, one 22 bore pistol and 545 rounds were recovered during the last night's raid in a posh area here.

September 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The file containing the record of an Indian who was granted Pakistani citizenship in 1991 has been destroyed, the Senate Committee on Interior was informed. The committee was informed that the file containing important documents about the grant of Pakistani citizenship to Syed Sarwat Hussain was burnt during a fire in the Shaheed-e-Millat Secretariat in 2002.

September 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Security forces killed 16 more militants, at least two of them senior Taliban members, while one soldier was killed in clashes during searches in Swat on Monday, the military said in a daily update. Over 1,700 militants have been killed since Pakistani security forces launched the military operation against Taliban militants in the month of April.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who recently visited Saudi Arabia, has categorically denied meeting former President Pervez Musharraf. There were reports that Musharraf was in Saudi Arabia and Malik had met him there.

August 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said two sources have confirmed the death of Tehreek-e-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. The Interior Minister said he did not blow any trumpet of anything; an attack on Mehsud was conducted in the night falling between August 5 and 6, adding intelligence sources confirmed his death.

July 24th, 2009 SWAT - A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has said militant leader Maulana Fazlullah is in good health, rejecting the claims by security forces that he was wounded in a military offensive in the country's northwest, the Online news agency reported. Pakistan military spokesman Maj.

July 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik could be on the way out with the name of Raza Rabbani, a senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that heads the ruling coalition, doing the rounds as his successor. Rabbani would be given ministry of interior in a cabinet reshuffle that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to undertake in the next few days while Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman would retain his ministry over his brilliant performance, Online news agency reported Wednesday, quoting sources.

July 10th, 2009 Report: Bush officials snubbed wiretapping reviewWASHINGTON — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and ex-CIA Director George Tenet are among the Bush administration officials who refused to be interviewed for a government report on the warrantless wiretapping program. The Bush-era program conducted electronic surveillance on calls and e-mails within the U.S.

July 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said senior Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah has been seriously injured in fighting in the Swat Valley. In an interview with BBC, Malik said the Taliban militants are currently on the run, but the Pakistani forces will soon capture them.

June 5th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Fazlullah may have been killed in the ongoing military operation in Swat. Malik said "it will soon become clear whether Fazlullah has been killed or not." A private TV channel quoted the Interior Minister as saying that the army would not be called back after the Swat operation concludes.

June 5th, 2009 MAKHACHKALA - The interior minister of the southern Russian republic of Daghestan was shot dead Friday afternoon at a wedding reception here. "Daghestani Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov died of gunshot wounds on the way to the hospital," an interior ministry spokesman said.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday - their first meeting since the Pakistani leader allegedly snubbed Brown last month. The talks at Downing Street are expected to centre around the intensifying war between the Pakistani Army and the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley and North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

May 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to form a joint border security force. Addressing a press conference, the Interior Ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan also said that both the countries would exchange prisoners.