B.A. Malik is likely to be appointed as an Ambassador to a European country, Business Recorder learnt here on Saturday.
Malik was posted in Tanzania as ambassador until 1979, when he was thrown out of his job, and had to remain in exile for nine years, until he returned to the country and was re-appointed as ambassador after the late Benazir Bhutto was elected as the first woman prime minister of Pakistan in 1988.
Why Malik was fired from his job is an interesting story. Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto instituted Quaid-i-Azam International Human Rights Award and wished to confer it on Kenneth Kuanda (KK), Zambia's President. Bhutto was overthrown by president Ziaul Haq and was executed in 1979.
Ministry of foreign affairs asked the Pakistan ambassador B.A. Malik, also concurrently accredited to Zambia, to inform KK of the wish to confer the award to him, but KK declined saying, 'You have killed my friend [meaning ZAB].' Malik sent the full report to his ministry, who sent a demarche asking the ambassador to inform Zambian external ministry that the Zambian President's reply was tantamount to an insult to Quaid-i-Azam.
Malik did not do the errand he was asked to do, instead he sent a reply that Kuanda had not insulted the Quaid-i-Azam at all, but KK was contemptuous of military invasion and for eliminating a popular political leader of the country. With this kind of reply, which he sent to his superiors it was obvious that Malik would get the sack, and he did.
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