AG Malik Qayyum - enemy of BB, friend of Sharifs.

[Reza_Pahlavi]

Re: AG Malik Qayyum - enemy of BB, friend of Sharifs.

@Aalsi

I read some interesting points about the new AG Malik Qayyum’s history, and it made me wonder whether the government deliberately appointed him to send different messages to BB and Nawaz. For Bhutto would hate the man if you look at his history, but he is a good friend of the Sharif’s.

Is this an olive branch to the Sharif brothers?

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Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum (retired), who has been appointed as attorney general, was born to former Supreme Court judge Justice Muhammad Akram on Dec 18, 1944. Justice Akram was also a member of the five-member Lahore High Court bench which had handed down capital punishment to former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a unanimous decision.

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He was also counsel of former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif in a case filed in the apex court for return of the latter to Pakistan from exile. His brother, Muhammad Pervaiz Malik, contested 2002 polls and became MNA from the platform of the PML-N, while his brother-in-law Mian Misbahur Rehman is a district level leader of the PPP. Just a month ago, Justice Qayyum had himself wished to contest the next polls if the PML-N granted him a ticket for the National Assembly from a Kasur constituency, his hometown.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/02/nat39.htm

Musharraf is master tactician. When people thought he was down and out, he managed to blow the opposition unity to pieces, and all the major political leaders racing to make some sort of deal with him. Far from just relying on just BB, he also has Fazlur Rehman and the Sharifs all cosied up as well. BB must be all dazed and confused. :hehe: