Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran Awan’s father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran bragged he had the power to “change the U.S. president.”

Asked for how he knew this, he said that on one occasion in 2008 when a “USB [was] given to Rehman Malik by Imran’s father, my brother Abdul Razzaq was with his father.”

“After Imran’s father deliver (sic) USB to Rehman Malik, four Pakistani [government intelligence] agents were with his father 24-hour on duty to protect him,” he said. Minhas did not say what was on the USB.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/18/imran-awan-usb-drive-pakistan/

Pictures of Rehman Malik with Obama, Clinton, Kerry, McCain, and Mueller

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CIA created Haqqani network during Soviet occupation: Pakistan

PTI

Islamabad, September 26, 2011 11:25 IST

Updated: August 04, 2016 01:48 IST

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/cia-created-haqqani-network-during-soviet-occupation-pakistan/article2486630.ece

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has contended that the U.S. should share the blame for the rise of the Haqqani network as the CIA created the Taliban faction during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and trained its members.

“The Haqqani network was trained and produced by the CIA,” he said. The group did not originate in Pakistan and the U.S. should not now speak about “things which happened 20 years ago”, he told reporters during an interaction here on Sunday.

However, he acknowledged that Pakistan had helped the CIA during the war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The Haqqani network is now present in Afghanistan and “those claiming otherwise should give evidence of its presence in Pakistan,” Mr. Malik claimed. “We will fight the terrorists as our forces are capable of handling them and countering any challenge,” he said.

Mr. Malik was responding to accusations by top American officials that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence had supported the Haqqani network for carrying out a string of attacks, including one on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

He said Pakistan had never blamed the CIA or Afghanistan directly for several attacks in Mohmand tribal region or other areas. “The nefarious designs of external elements will be foiled,” he said. Mr. Malik called for a strong immigration system at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The government is determined to eliminate terrorism, he said. “Any aggression from outside or mischievous activity from inside will not be tolerated. The sovereignty of Pakistan will never be compromised and everyone will stand with the Pakistan Army and law enforcement agencies to counter any challenge,” he added.