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ISLAMABAD: 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, his spokesperson, Riaz Ahmad Turi, confirmed.
On February 1, PPP Senator Sehar Kamran confirmed on Twitter that Malik’s condition had deteriorated because of which he had to be put on a ventilator.
Malik had served as the interior minister from 2008 to 2013. He was one of the closest aides of former premier Benazir Bhutto.
More to follow.