{"id":246115,"date":"2022-02-24T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=246115"},"modified":"2022-02-24T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:21:10","slug":"ppp-stalwart-rehman-malik-passes-away-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ppp-stalwart-rehman-malik-passes-away-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP stalwart Rehman Malik passes away at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor-KP expresses grief over death of Senator Rehman Malik<br \/>\n ISLAMABAD\/Peshawar<br \/>\nSenior politician and former interior minister Rehman Malik passed away at the age of 70 on Wednesday morning.<br \/>\nThe PPP senator had been hospitalised in Islamabad as he had developed COVID-19-related complications and his lungs had been severely affected, his spokesperson, Riaz Ahmad Turi, had said.<br \/>\nHe is survived by his widow and two sons. Malik had tested positive for coronavirus around almost a month ago. He was put on the ventilator after his health condition deteriorated due to the virus-related complications.<br \/>\nThe PPP senator, who had received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Karachi, served as the interior minister of the country from 2008 to 2013. He was one of the closest aides of former premier Benazir Bhutto.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Shah Farman expressed profound shock and sadness over the demise of former interior minister and leader of PPP Senator Rehman Malik.<br \/>\nSenior leader of PPP and former Home Minister Rehman Malik was admitted to the hospital in Islamabad after being infected with Covid-19. He was 70 years old.<br \/>\nIn his condolence statement issued here on Wednesday, Shah Farman conveyed his heartfelt sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family and prayed to Allah Almighty for forgiveness of the deceased and patience for the bereaved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor-KP expresses grief over death of Senator Rehman Malik ISLAMABAD\/Peshawar Senior politician and former interior minister Rehman Malik passed away at the age of 70 on Wednesday morning. The PPP senator had been hospitalised in Islamabad as he had developed COVID-19-related complications and his lungs had been severely affected, his spokesperson, Riaz Ahmad Turi, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PPP stalwart Rehman Malik passes away at 70<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ppp-stalwart-rehman-malik-passes-away-at-70\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PPP stalwart Rehman Malik passes away at 70\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor-KP expresses grief over death of Senator Rehman Malik ISLAMABAD\/Peshawar Senior politician and former interior minister Rehman Malik passed away at the age of 70 on Wednesday morning. 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