Zardari pardons key cabinet minister
May 19, 2010 00:00:00
ISLAMABAD, May 18 (AFP): Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday pardoned a key cabinet minister sentenced over corruption to block his possible arrest, threatening to plunge his rule into fresh controversy.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik, one of the closest allies of Pakistan's unpopular head of state and a key member of his ruling party, was sentenced in absentia to three years in jail by an anti-corruption court in January 2004.
