Pak SC issues contempt notice to Malik over steel firm probe

Pakistans Supreme Court issued a contempt notice to Interior Minister Rehman Malik for 'interfering' in a probe into alleged wrongdoing and financial irregularities in a state-owned steel company.

Pakistans Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to Interior Minister Rehman Malik for interfering in a probe into alleged wrongdoing and financial irregularities in a state-owned steel company and summoned him to appear before it on December 24 to explain his actions.

An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry,which initiated suo motu proceedings after taking note of a media report of alleged corruption in the Pakistan Steel Mills,took exception to Maliks decision to change the officer probing the matter.

The bench said the ministers action amounted to interfering in the working of the judiciary.

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It issued a contempt of court notice and summoned Malik to appear in court on December 24 to explain his actions.

Malik recently transferred Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) chief Tariq Khosa,who was conducting the probe into the functioning of the steel mills,saying that the apex court was not happy with his investigation.

Malik also appointed a new joint investigation team.

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