‘Zardari out of the country for treatment’

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party’s MNA and leader Faryal Talpur has said that former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has been out of the country for treatment of his health.

“Asif Ali Zardari Sahib will return to the country on whatever date he decides for the purpose as he would not take dictation from anyone in this regard,” said MNA Faryal Talpur while talking to newsmen on Tuesday after she participated in the ceremony held at PPP media cell in Clifton to mark the 88th birthday of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

The PPP’s influential MNA was asked about months’ long stay of former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari out of the country mainly in Dubai, the UAE.“There were baseless things said about me also that I would also not return to the country but here I am present in the country,” said the MNA Talpur who is also the sister of Asif Ali Zardari.

“Like me Zardari Sahib would also return to the country one day,” she said. The lady MNA of PPP made it clear on the occasion that no criminal case was lodged against her.Also speaking on the occasion, Sindh chief minister’s Advisor on Information Moula Bakhsh Chandio said that the   founder of the People’s Party, the late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had got united the Muslim world.

“But today Muslim countries are fighting with each other, and if Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had been alive today the Muslim countries would not have been fighting with each other like this,” he said.

“As Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had organized an OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) summit in Lahore in 1974, there is also need to hold an OIC summit in the same manner today,” said Chandio.He said that those who had dreamed of elimination of Pakistan People’s Party had themselves got eliminated.