Asif Ali Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari
Asif Ali ZardariSindhi: آصف علي زرداري); born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician and current co-chairperson of Pakistan People's Party. He served as the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 July 1955
CountryPakistan
aspire economic peace promote strategic understanding
On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.
acts address against allow assured concerns india leads pakistan territory
Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
prison time
I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.
assembly coalitions elections form four national parties provincial reached won
When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
allowed form pakistan soil toward
Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
asked civil close existence federation people
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
afghan cold ills left mind pakistan society suffered war worst
You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
courts dependent difficult food including jail prison
As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
party thinking vacuums
I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
pakistan terrorism evolve
I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.
india-and-pakistan forever looking-forward
I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.
issues political democracy
Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
responsibility soil
Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.
book government actors
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.