Islamabad: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the government would impement court orders regarding arrest of Pervez Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz.
He was taking to media outside the Parliament House on Thursday. “I assure you, government fully implement court orders and will write a latter to the Interpol to arrest Musharraf and Aziz” he said.
Malik said that the government would defend the Pakistani cricketers allegedly involved in spot-fixing, if they were found innocent. He said assistance would be provided to these players, if required. But, he added the people would not spare them if they were found involved the fixing case. Replying to a question, the minister welcomed the decision to grant status of Most Favored Nation(MSF) to India, saying it would have positive impact on bilateral relations between the two countries.
He added he personally understood that good relations between neighboring countries had always positive impact on bilateral relations.
However, he added, if the Parliament considered the decision as not favorable, it should reverse it. He said ministerial and secretary level meetings with India had contributed towards improving relations between the two countries, which was a positive development.
Answering another question, he said his visit to Turkey remained very successful, adding wide-range of issues were discussed in meetings during the visit.
He was of the view that Pakistan and Afghanistan were needed to have interior ministerial level meetings for ensuring peace.
He said an immigration counter would be set up at Pak-Afghan boarder by the end of the month.
Replying a query about the N-League rally against the government in Lahore, he said the Jamat-e-Islami workers also participated in the rally.
“I know form where people were brought to the rally”, he said, and added political parties should invited singers, Qawals and dancers to their political processions.
Malik once again called the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain as a guarantor of the democracy in Pakistan.
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