Dr Abdul Wahid Soomro (MNA Pakistan Peoples Party)

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Interior Rehman Malik has tendered resignation from his office, sources said on Monday.

Rehman Malik has been a beneficiary of the National Reconciliation Ordinance.

Prime Minister Yousur Raza Gilani in his recent address to the Senate had asked the ministers and other officials facing NAB cases to quit their offices.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has been the first federal minister that has tendered his resignation after the prime minister's statement in the Senate.
Sources

ISLAMABAD: Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to fuel a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on two Shia rallies that killed nearly 90 people in the cities of Quetta and Lahore in the past three days.
The attacks ended a lull after devastating floods which affected 20 million people.
Officials had said before the attacks that any major violence at such a difficult time was likely to cause deep popular resentment against the militants.
On Friday, the Taliban also threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe “very soon”, two days after the Washington added the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to its list of “foreign terrorist organisations”.