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Summary Rehman Malik says stern action will be taken against those who will desecrate national flag.
Talking to the media during his visit to National Press Club Islamabad, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that there are only 48 people missing not 6000 in Balochsitan and who knows they doing labour in Dubai or any other country.The interior minister said that compensation money has been paid to those heirs of missing people who submitted applications.He said that there were 5000 youth were getting training in Kabul’s training camp until Barahamdagh Bugti was in Kabul. However, Afghan President ended this camp on our request, Malik said.He said that party leadership has directed investigations against the party members who did not give vote to the PPP candidate in Senate elections.While giving Rs 0.3 million aid to the press club, the interior minister promised that he will talk to the prime minister to release announced Rs 1.5 million aid for two sick journalists. He also announced to issue arm licenses to the journalists.To a question, Malik said he had formally asked Interpol to issue an arrest warrant for Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.We have sent a request to the Interpol for the arrest of Pervez Musharraf, Malik told reporters in the capital Islamabad.Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, while leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of Pakistans army.Musharraf, who has lived in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai since August 2008, has indefinitely delayed plans to return home to contest elections after the government warned he would be arrested upon arrival.Pakistani courts have issued warrants for his arrest over the 2006 death of Akbar Bugti, a Baluch rebel leader in the southwest Pakistan, and the 2007 assassination of Bhutto, whose widower is Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.Malik, who was a close aide of Bhutto, has accused Musharraf of refusing to provide her with adequate security and of threatening her by telephone when she was in Washington before returning to Pakistan in October 2007.Bhutto, who served two terms as prime minister, returned from exile two months before she was assassinated. Her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, led her Pakistan Peoples Party to election victory in 2008 and is now president.At the time of Bhuttos death, Musharrafs government blamed the assassination on Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who denied any involvement and was subsequently killed in a US drone attack.
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