NICL Scam: Malik refuses to appear before Commission
26 January, 2012
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik refused on Wednesday to face the Supreme Court Commission probing political intervention into the investigations of mega NICL scam. He refused in writing to face cross-examination on the well-known four options to former FIA Additional DG Zafar Qureshi. The NICL commission had summoned Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday for cross examination by the lawyer of Zafar Qureshi, Asjad Saeed, on his counter affidavit, which the interior minister has submitted in response to the affidavit of Zafar Qureshi on the offering of four options. The News (a local newspaper) had reported that to the later by the former. The News (a local newspaper) had reported that Rehman Malik had summoned Zafar Qureshi at his residence on a Sunday, simply one day after the apex court restored Qureshi on investigations of NICL scam after PPP government refused to restore him on these investigations, and offered him four options: i)- leave the country immediately, ii)- go on a long leave, iii)- tell the Supreme Court in writing that he cannot continue with the NICL investigation for personal reasons, iv)- if all the three are not possible, then bail out Moonis Elahi, the son of the Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the new coalition partner of the PPP government. On Wednesday, Azhar Chaudhry, counsel of Rehman Malik appeared before the Commission and informed that interior minister will not appear before the Commission for his cross examination by Zafar Qureshi. Courtesy: The News
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