ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senior leader and former interior minister Rehman Malik passed away at the age of 70 on Wednesday in Islamabad after he fell critically ill due to COVID-19.
Earlier this month, Rehman Malik was hospitalized in Islamabad due to post-Covid related complications and was put on ventilator as his health deteriorated. His lungs had been severely affected.
Confirming the news of his death on Wednesday early morning, Riaz Ali Turi tweeted, “Deeply devastated to say that former interior minister [and] PPP’s senior leader, Abdul Rehman Malik, passed away.”
Deeply devasted to say that Former Interior Minister, PPP' senior leader Abdul Rehman Malik passed away. Sorrow, pain and grief are indescribable. All are requested to pray for his soul.
— Riaz Ali Turi (@RiazToori) February 22, 2022
Rehman Malik served as the Interior Minister from being appointed on 25 March 2008 until 16 March 2013. Earlier, from 2004 until 2007, he served as the chief of security of Benazir Bhutto and became senior official of the central committee of the PPP.
Rehman Malik was born 12 December 1951 in Sialkot. Prior to his entry in national politics, Malik had pursued a successful career in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) as a special agent, eventually becoming the Additional Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency in 1993 until 1996.