KARACHI: Senator Rehman Malik says he has asked for a Parliamentary committee to investigate allegations that he politically influenced the job termination of a man who filmed his offloading from a PIA flight.

The video clip, filmed by former Gerry's Group General Manager Arjumand Azhar Hussain and showing irate passengers expelling Malik for a delay of a PIA flight, had gone viral on the internet and social media.

Hussain was fired from his job at the Gerry's Group earlier this week, with rumours circulating that the termination was the result of political pressure exerted by Senator Malik, who was the Federal Interior Minister from 2008 to 2013 during the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led government.

Malik took to social media early Friday, tweeting a letter he said he has written to the chairman Senate asking him to form a Parliamentary committee to probe the media reports and 'false allegations' against him.