Profile of Zardari

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Profile: Asif Ali Zardari


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Mr Zardari was nicknamed 'Mr 10%'

Asif Ali Zardari has long been one of Pakistan's most controversial political figures and yet he has risen to its most powerful office - the presidency.
Since becoming Pakistan's president in September 2008, Mr Zardari has presided over an increasingly fragile country, a growing militant threat, possible economic meltdown and mounting political instability.
Among the many opponents ranged against him are a number of estranged former allies, who include one of the country's most popular politicians, Nawaz Sharif.
Mr Zardari has negotiated many a dramatic turn since his marriage 20 years ago to the charismatic former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
He was thrust into centre stage of current political developments when Ms Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007.
Since then he has led her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) through successful general elections and worked with former political enemies to force President Pervez Musharraf to resign.
Prison sentences
And yet, before Ms Bhutto's death, Mr Zardari's public image was so bad that the PPP kept him out of the public eye as much as possible during the campaigning for national elections in February 2008. Mr Zardari was seen as a political liability.
He spent several years in jail on charges of corruption. He was labelled "Mr 10%".
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Benazir Bhutto's death propelled Mr Zardari on to centre stage

He found himself in major trouble in 1990 when he was accused, among other things, of tying a remote-controlled bomb to the leg of a businessman and sending him into a bank to withdraw money from his account as a pay-off.
Those charges were never proved. The PPP had then accused the country's powerful intelligence apparatus of maligning Mr Zardari to damage Ms Bhutto's image.
In 1993, when then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan sacked the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Mr Zardari was escorted from the prison straight to the presidency where he was sworn in as a minister in the interim government.
Later, the PPP won the 1993 elections, and Mr Zardari moved with his wife to the Prime Minister House in Islamabad where he lived for the next three years.
In 1996, when another president sacked the PPP government, he was arrested and charged with a number of offences including the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, his wife's brother.
He was later charged, along with his wife, and convicted in a kickbacks scam involving a Swiss company, SGS.
But a mistrial was declared by Pakistan's Supreme Court following a major scandal involving the accountability bureau and the judge who had issued the verdict.
Pakistan's judiciary has not had a reputation for acting independently of the government when it comes to high-profile cases, especially of a political nature.
His last prison sentence lasted eight years until 2004, during which time he says he was tortured.
It ended as the then General Musharraf was engaged in protracted negotiations with Benazir Bhutto, then in self-imposed exile, for some form of political reconciliation.
'Personal bravery'
Mr Zardari resolutely stood by his party as well as his wife - although at times he disagreed with the politics of both.
His friends say this was entirely in character and that no-one can deny his personal courage.
A close friend recounts an incident in the 1980s when he was still a polo-playing and horse-riding bachelor.
"We were on a cross-country ride in Karachi when one of our company, the daughter of a German diplomat, fell into a bog with her horse.
"There were 40 of us. We all stood around stunned except for this one man, Asif Ali Zardari, who jumped in and pulled out the girl and then the horse as well.
"During all this time, he could have drowned at any time himself."
'Fall guy'
Asif Ali Khan Zardari was born in Karachi to Hakim Ali Zardari, head of one of the "lesser" Sindhi tribes, who chose the urban life over rustic surroundings.
Asif grew up in Karachi and was educated at St Patrick's School - ironically also the alma mater of Pervez Musharraf.
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Pakistani lawyers have led protests against President Zardari

His father did relatively well - the young Zardari's main claim to fame was that he had a private disco at home, helping him gain the reputation as a "playboy".
When he married Benazir, the icon of the anti-establishment cause in Pakistan, he became "the designated fall guy", a close family friend says.
"Zardari knew this and accepted it. He walked into the marriage knowing it would always be about her, and never about him."
After his release from prison in 2004, Mr Zardari kept a low profile, undergoing medical treatment in the US.
He suffers from diabetes and a spinal ailment which prevents him from moving around without the help of a walking stick.
He also worked to re-establish his relationship with his children after years of separation.
Benazir appreciated her husband's loyalty, knowing that "despite his failings, he always stood by his family no matter what", one of her confidants says.
This was on display following Ms Bhutto's assassination, when he kept the family together.
He forcefully rejected demands for a rebellion against the government, saying the integrity of Pakistan was sacred to the PPP.
But in recent months he has been accused both from within and outside the PPP of promoting his own cronies at the expense of party veterans who had stood by Mrs Bhutto through thick and thin.
 

ALI ARYAN

Senator (1k+ posts)
One of my old friend told me this story when i went to Pakistan last August!!

Mere dost ki walida Taleem Yafta nahin hain or na hi unko Pakistani Politics ka kuch zada pata hai, lekin jis din Zardari Sadar Muntakhib hua us din Subah Sawerey woh 7 Bajay se hi zid karnay lageen ke UNko bank le jaya jaye, dost ne kaha ke abhi buhat subah hai banks 9 bajay ke bad hi open hotay hain, per woh israr karti raheen nahin abhi se chalo or bank ke bahir uske khulnay ka intezar karen ge, Akhir kar usne waja pochi to kehnay lageen.

Zardari aaj se saddar ban jaye ga Apni Raqam Bankoon se nikalawa lo nahin to woh Kha jaye ga.

Mujhe yeh story sun kar buhat hasi aaye or andaza hua ke un logon ko bhi is Shaks ka pata hai jinko Pakistan ki siyasat ka zara bhi pata nahin
 

bons

Minister (2k+ posts)
one of the most idiot person became the president of this country thanks to all idiots

Thanks to all idiots who elected the idiots who voted in assemblies for the IDIOT.
 
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Muhammad Afzal

Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
I received a text from somebody on my mobile phone. I hope everybody received it but to share it with my friends who didn't get a chance to read it. I know i might get a warning from admn but i can't stop i have to share it with my friends at siasat.pk. I know people got away with so many things on this forum, but why i was awarded a warning earlier. Still a mystery. Here it is read and enjoy, who so ever fabricated it was a master mind, a salute to you sir great thinking.

"On all muslim grave it is written Akhari Araam Gha
on Zardari's grave it will be written

AKHARI HARAMADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
 
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anglopakiman

Voter (50+ posts)
How low we've fallen. there aren't many countries where a man can marry into wealth and power and connive with his wife to bleed his country white and murder his brother in law. There are even fewer countries where the same man can then ride his dead wife's coattails into the presidency while serving the people a load of steaming bullsht about how his dynasty aren't corrupt. Then just to be totally crass, he talks about fighting poverty as he sits on top of 2 billion stolen dollars. Its the sort of thing you expect from african dictators like mobutu. Yet millions of people vote for them and i hear people deny all of the above. the only response for those people is "OWW the stupididty, IT BURNS!