Qadri also remained guard of Zardari, Gilani, others
By Shakeel AnjumISLAMABAD: The self-confessed killer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, performed a total of 509 VIP and VVIP duties since he was declared a security risk for...
January 13, 2011
ISLAMABAD: The self-confessed killer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, performed a total of 509 VIP and VVIP duties since he was declared a security risk for these tasks in 2004, a report compiled by intelligence agencies says.
The report says that he performed a security duty with a foreign delegation as well on two occasions in 2010. He also performed duties with almost all the prominent politicians several times including President Asif Ali Zardari. He also remained in the security convoy of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, even after he was declared unfit for these duties.
The other politicians with whom Qadri performed guard duties include Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. He performed all these security duties from April 24, 2008 to January 4, 2011.
He also remained with Interior Minister Rehman Malik as his special security guard in 2010, the report maintains. The report reveals that Qadri was also part of a raid team conducted by Military Intelligence (MI) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) against terrorist outfits in 2008.
The assassin of the Punjab governor performed duties with him as his personal security guard for four times - on April 15, 2010, May 26, 2010, September 3, 2010, and on January 4, 2011.
The report says Qadri also remained with Taseer on general duties on ten occasions - five times in 2008, once in 2009, three times in 2010 and once in 2011 when he killed him in the Kohsar Market in Islamabad.
The report, compiled by the intelligence agencies after Qadri gunned Taseer down and surrendered himself to be arrested by his colleagues, elaborate the guard duties he performed on a whole. He performed security duties with President Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani and on PAF Base for four times in 2008, eight times in 2009 and six times in 2010.
