Asif Ali Zardari, a prominent Pakistani politician, served as the country’s 11th president from 2008 to 2013 and was re-elected in 2024, marking a significant return to leadership. He initially rose to prominence as the husband of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's first female Prime Minister. Following her assassination in 2007, Zardari took on a leadership role in the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), steering it to victory in the 2008 elections. His first term as president was marked by a strategic alliance with the United States, particularly in the Afghanistan conflict, and he championed the 18th Amendment, reducing presidential power to favor a parliamentary system
Throughout his career, Zardari has faced numerous allegations and legal controversies, with accusations of corruption, money laundering, and political manipulation often trailing him. He was imprisoned multiple times on various charges, spending about 11 years in detention from the early 1990s to 2004, including accusations of embezzlement and involvement in the killing of his brother-in-law, Murtaza Bhutto, though he was acquitted of most charges. The term "Mr. Ten Percent" became widely associated with him due to perceived involvement in corrupt practices, though he has consistently denied wrongdoing and has not been convicted on these charges
Chief Executive of Pakistan
Title: President of Pakistan
Name: Asif Ali Zardari
EDUCATION /Qualification:
High School from Cadet College Petaro
Details of higher formal education not known; Claims graduation from London but not available to be verified. As per some account. His official biography says he attended a commercial college called Pedinton School. But a search of tertiary educational institutions in London showed no such school.
Working Experience:
Early days: Working at the family owned Bambino Cinema at Karachi. Some accuse Mr Zardari of small-time ticket frauds to steal money from the family business.
Up till 1987 (marriage to the future Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto): No record.
1988 to date: While no official record of any business exists, Mr Zardari is widely believed to be one of the (if not the) richest man in Pakistan. An unofficial list of family owned businesses, property and accounts exists but the completeness of the same cannot be verified. Mr Zardari has however been involved in various national and international cases relating to his businesses. The most significant European cases are a Swiss money-laundering inquiry and a British civil cases.
Working Experience [Politics]:
1988-1990: Husband of the Prime Minister
1993–1996: Minister of Environment during his wife's second term as the Prime Minister
Un till 1999: Senator
30 December 2007: Appointed himself as the co-chairman of the PPP, along with his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
September 9, 2008: Zardari was elected president of Pakistan. Sworn in by Abdul Hameed Dogar, whose position as the Chiefe Justice of Pakistan remains a contested issue by an overwhelming majority of the Pakistani legal fraternity.
Working Experience [Other]:
Other experience of Mr Zardari includes his widely believed but not proven involvement in
- Several murders - most famously of his brother in law, possibly his wife
- Wrapping a bomb to the leg of a famous UK businessman to ask for money
- Embezzlement & looting of Billions of Pakistan's wealth
BOOKS:
None on record
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Marrying the then future and now ex (RIP) Prime Minister of Pakistan
Only serving politician to have spent 10 years in Jail
Told the US VP Candidate that she is "gorgeous" and said : "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you". When the photographers asked the two to keep shaking hands, he replied : " If he insists, I might hug you". This was one day after the President delivered an emotional speech at the UN in new York waiving a photograph of his deceased wife only months after the murder of his wife.
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