Zardari Nominated As The Next President Of Pakistan

[Waqas 48]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Saturday announced the name of its Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the candidate to vie for the post of Pakistan’s president.

Central leader of PPP, Senator Raza Rabbani made the announcement at press briefing held here at Zardari House.

"Asif (Ali) Zardari has accepted to contest the election for the office of president of Pakistan after the party unanimously drafted him to do so," Mian Raza Rabbani told reporters.

“The coalition partners have been informed about the decision of the party,” he said.

Raza Rabbani said it was Asif Ali Zardari who waged a struggle against dictatorship of General (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf. The tough struggle of democratic forces made it possible to rid the country of dictatorship, he added.

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman and PPP Chief Whip in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah were also present on the occasion.

He said PPP will never compromise on its principles, adding, it was for the first in the country’s history that the public forces defeated the dictatorship. “Now anyone with an intention to disturb the democratic set up will have to think a thousand times before he takes any such step,” Raza Rabbani said.

To a question, he said at the moment no time frame could be given for the restoration of the judges.

The decision to abolish the 17th amendment of the Constitution will be made after the presidential elections, he said.

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