Asif Ali Zardari

Published April 9, 2013

PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN AND FORMER CO-CHAIRMAN OF PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY
Was a Federal Minister mid-1990s
Was a Member of Senate.
Released on bail from prison after eight years 2004
Returned to Pakistan after his wife’s (Benazir Bhutto) assassination December 2007
Elected as the country’s president, replacing General (retd) Pervez Musharraf September 2008
Resigned from the position of PPP's co-chief March 2013
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Launched the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP).
His government initiated the Aghaz-i-Huqooq-i-Balochistan package.
His government managed to forge a consensus for the seventh National Finance Corporation (NFC) award.
With the approval of the 18th Amendment, he surrendered the president’s power to dissolve Parliament.
Signed two bills seeking stricter punishments for a number of crimes against women into laws December 2011

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