Malik sought political security for Zardari: Leaks

WASHINGTON: According to latest revelations of diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told former US envoy Anne Patterson that it was not General Ashfaq Kayani but former ISI chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha who was hatching conspiracies against President Asif Ali Zardari, Geo News reported on Friday.

The cables revealed that Malik sought an urgent appointment to meet with Patterson in November 2009 and said that Pasha was hatching plots against Zardari, adding that the latter needed political security.

However, Patterson was certain that the ISI chief could not do it alone.