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NEW YORK: Former president Asif Ali Zardari is expected to arrive here next week along with his son Bilawal, Chairman of the PPP, and younger daughter Aseefa on a private visit for a medical check-up.
According to local PPP leaders, Mr Zardari is waiting for his son and daughter to join him in London for flying to New York.
He has been living in Dubai for several months and, according to former interior minister Rehman Malik, who visited him there, was not feeling well.
Mr Zardari is also likely to discuss Pakistan’s political situation and preparations for the next general elections with party leaders during his stay in the United States.
While living in New York from 2005 to 2007, Mr Zardari reportedly underwent treatment for a heart ailment and stress disorder.
Published in Dawn, January 16th, 2016
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Jan 16, 2016 07:44am
again some trouble in the belly. Dear Lord!
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Jan 16, 2016 09:49am
Topi drama publicity to gain sympathy
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Jan 16, 2016 09:52am
Its old code word medical checkup
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Jan 16, 2016 09:52am
In out political parlance "Medical Check-up" either means "vacation" or "meeting super secret people for super secret plans".
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Jan 16, 2016 09:59am
Does Pakistan lacks good doctors, for a medical checkup? Or Mr. Zardari does not trust?
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Jan 16, 2016 10:04am
And where will people of Tharparker go for medical check up where he and his cronies are ruling from decades? Did anyone from PPP ever think about it?
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Jan 16, 2016 10:08am
Why not go to Pakistan and see a heart surgeon there?
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Jan 16, 2016 10:24am
Respected commentators, we must not be so ruthless.On humanity ground we got to believe him and wish him good health.
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Jan 16, 2016 10:50am
using our looted money our honorable ex president is having his medical checkup in US . Dubai ,UK has some good Hospitals but not up to zardari's standards …
whats a scum..
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Jan 16, 2016 11:12am
Not worth commenting on.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:12am
take a dying child from tharparker with you. do something in this life that gives u some measure of self respect.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:19am
We should believe him about his sickness.With so many differences on his policies we must pray for his good health.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:24am
Memory loss, again!?
Does he even know how long he has suffered this affliction?
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Jan 16, 2016 11:30am
@Danish
Kindly explain the humanity to the father of the 10 month old baby which died because of the circus of Bilawal Zardari. If that was not enough the officials of PPP were justifying the death of the 10 month old.....No wonder we deserve all what is happening around us.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:36am
at the expense of tax payer money..
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Jan 16, 2016 11:37am
worlds best doctor are available in Pakistan.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:41am
Annual Fee payment is due for 2016 to Lobbying company.
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Jan 16, 2016 12:10pm
@Faheem But many patients visit India for their treatment every year from Pakistan.
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Jan 16, 2016 12:17pm
Wish him well but why havent our rulers developed medical facilities and hospitals in their own country?
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Jan 16, 2016 12:18pm
No doctors in Dubai?
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Jan 16, 2016 12:49pm
@tahir malik spot on
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Jan 16, 2016 12:55pm
I think he is tired of hot weather in Dubai and need break to enjoy mild winter of NY. Why need family for his own checkup?
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Jan 16, 2016 12:57pm
@Aamir Ashraf : Mr. Zardari was Pakistan president from 2008- 2013, however it is foresightedness of our leaders not to develop medical facilities in Pakistan, so that they can avail health facilities ex Pakistan as being free and in their interest.
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Jan 16, 2016 01:03pm
I'm sure nation will be praying for him....
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Jan 16, 2016 01:06pm
Something else
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Jan 16, 2016 01:28pm
@Awais Ali This not only limit to Zardari, everyone have same preferential perks. See the life style of Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan, feudal lords of Baluchistan Sindh, who of them came from middle class or lower class. No one. Our history is full of these examples right form the start. Any one came from lower cadre, either crushed in the very beginning or become monster later on. But still less lethal in their impacts compared to of elites'. Elites have art of concealing of their loot, while others are exposed poorly.
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Jan 16, 2016 01:43pm
@Faheem if that was true thousands of Pakistanis would not go to western countries and even india for medical treatment!
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Jan 16, 2016 01:51pm
Gharrebo se vote laina hota hai tu he comes to Pakistan. But he goes abroad for his treatment lolz and fools keep electing leaders like him
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Jan 16, 2016 02:04pm
Because we only come to pakistan when we have to loot otherwise we live our lives elsewhere.
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Jan 16, 2016 02:07pm
Zardari sahab. Please don't come back. Believe me, you will not be missed by the Nation.
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Jan 16, 2016 02:10pm
In PPP Encyclopaedia of Polictical Corruption the word "medical" means more conspiracy against one's own country. And Zardari leads the way!!!
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Jan 16, 2016 02:23pm
@aamir - Imran Khan belonged to a middle class family and his father was a civil servant. Check your facts before painting him as elite. Whatever he earned, earned through his hard work, not by looting Pakistan and making factories abroad.
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Jan 16, 2016 02:32pm
Very good medical facilities are available in UK but business related ailments do require a trip to NY.
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Jan 16, 2016 02:33pm
@Sunil Just like people of Pakistan don't trust Zardari.
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Jan 16, 2016 02:35pm
@Tariq What if there is power failure during the examination !
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Jan 16, 2016 02:42pm
@SMI Yes looking for some expensive real estate in NY.
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Jan 16, 2016 02:57pm
The king of sindh has not developed any hospitals is sindh where he can go for treatment. Sindhi subjects should kill themselves for having such a callous leader as their own.
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Jan 16, 2016 03:11pm
Its a family picnic party..
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Jan 16, 2016 03:13pm
Why not treat him in Karachi Jinnah hospital? Why generals, high officials and politicians go out for treatments? Why are they sacred cows? They take all the cash of poor widows orphans yet they don't get treated here? These Generals, high officials and politician s have not come from another planet. Why people don't held them accountable
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Jan 16, 2016 03:23pm
The Tahir Hospital in Rabwah, Pakistan is reputed to be the best in the country. He should go there.
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Jan 16, 2016 03:42pm
You should get admitted to Benazir Bhutto (notice how they like to name public funded projects after their own families unlike the west were you actually have to donate a building to be named after yourself) wing of Civil Hospital Karachi. Shamefully he did not build a facility were he could be checked himself. What can you expect from the worst exploiter of his own people.
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Jan 16, 2016 03:47pm
I think after making his speech of Eint say Eint baja do ga ,he is collecting Eint in NY
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Jan 16, 2016 03:47pm
@Nauman M No certainly Its not good hospital as Ex president has chose to go to USA. One must look for improvement of Tahir hospital.
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Jan 16, 2016 03:56pm
@gary
Why do you not pay for them to live a grand life in Dubia and jet fly the world on Pak tax money
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Jan 16, 2016 04:11pm
Stay there. You and your whole family. Please don't come back. We have suffered enough.
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Jan 16, 2016 04:22pm
At present, Mr. Zardari is no more a Pakistani citizen.
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Jan 16, 2016 04:31pm
@Faheem
But she is in NY;
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Jan 16, 2016 04:32pm
@Abu Hamza
Yeah Right ??
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Jan 16, 2016 04:41pm
In this world we all have to reap what we sore or in other words what goes around comes around - the death of a 10 month baby girl in Karachi of a poor labourer is very recent
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Jan 16, 2016 04:47pm
O people of Pakistan are you so stupid that you can't see through these people. These people are supposed to be serving you, making your life easier, providing facilities for you, your children, thinking of the future generations. Instead they travel all over the world at your expense for holidays, medical treatments. If the medical facilities in Pakistan aren't good enough for these people then why are they good enough for other Pakistanis. O people of Pakistan rise and get rid of these people take control of your country. You deserve much much better than these people. PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!
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Jan 16, 2016 04:54pm
Qaim Ali Shah should offer Zardari treatment in a hospital in Thar and let him experience what agony his electorate are going through.
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Jan 16, 2016 05:01pm
he will remain outside on different check ups until he is cleared by Army to come back.
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Jan 16, 2016 05:08pm
Same old dodgy tactics are back......he is ill, in poor health and depressed.
Why is he doing everything privately.....private jets, private hotels, private hospitals???
He was president of Pakistan....a welfare state?????
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Jan 16, 2016 05:22pm
@Sunil the entire subcontinent lacks good doctors. The rich go to Dubai and the really really rich go to Europe and US for medical checkups
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Jan 16, 2016 05:42pm
I wonder why he is afraid to fly alone
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Jan 16, 2016 05:43pm
Maybe now he will donate Billions of dollars to charity.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:13pm
May be TEETH problem since he forgot to smile after Dr. Asim's arrest.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:19pm
@Dilectus I could hardly find any example in middle or lower classes in Pakistan who were fortunate enough to get educated in Aitchison and Oxford. I think in our country who are not elite went to government schools especially in his time period.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:23pm
It is time that he should retire and relax.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:37pm
Mr Zardari is going to USA for hart
programming with his son and daughter.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:38pm
I wish he never comes back to Pakistan for politics...tired of selfish leaders, who live outside Pakistan when in opposition, they go to US for medical purpose, their childen study at Oxford. They only visit to Pakistan when they have rule under their belt to make the poor, poorer, and to rule genrenations of the many generations.
Pakistan get rid of the thugs.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:44pm
What ever reason he may have..poor people are suffereing in Sind.kids sre dying in thar due to the lack of medical facility..can we send them aswell for medical check up
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Jan 16, 2016 06:48pm
Better stay out of Pakistan , because you are not required here.
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Jan 16, 2016 06:58pm
Naeem your comments makes sense, but how can one educate our people, they have been made blind,senseless and earless for almost 69 years
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Jan 16, 2016 07:05pm
Dubai, London, New York - expensive travel, expensive houses - where did all the money come from ?
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Jan 16, 2016 07:10pm
Send him to Tharparker hospital not NYC hospital, so that he can feel the pain of kids dieing over there.
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Jan 16, 2016 07:44pm
Why not go to Pakistan and see a heart surgeon, thee are so many good surgeon in Military Hospital. As a Ex-Prsident he will get the best possible treatment and if recommended by our doctors he can then proceed to overseas for treatment.
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Jan 16, 2016 08:55pm
Why? Is it because there are no good physicians in Pakistan?
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Jan 16, 2016 09:26pm
@Danish Love your naivete!
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Jan 16, 2016 09:37pm
So these politicians go to the US just for check-ups?????
Shame on them.
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Jan 16, 2016 09:37pm
Pakistani politicians are like nomads, they live in Midleast or England,work in Pakistan then get their business done in the West.
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Jan 16, 2016 09:42pm
@Yasir Matin
Thank you yasir i agree 100000% with you
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Jan 16, 2016 09:51pm
Lets hope it is not costing the Pakistani tax payers. Zardari must have his won private health plan or does he need one after looting and plundering the riches and Treasury of Pakistan?
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Jan 16, 2016 10:41pm
Pathetic. Simply pathetic. They come to Pakistan only to loot and plunder and when they are out of power they go abroad to enjoy their ill gotten wealth. No wonder the people of Pakistan have no faith in these criminals.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:33pm
he is leader of PPP,party of people,the people who is blown up by terror attacks,poverty,hunger,lack of medical facility,shelter,food,water every thing.He cares about the public therefore going to NY for minor medical checkup.
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Jan 16, 2016 11:47pm
Get well soon sir. Our nation need your leadership.
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Jan 17, 2016 12:15am
@Danish Did you read Awais Alis's comment? it is here again for you.
Awais Ali
- about 14 hours ago
And where will people of Tharparker go for medical check up where he and his cronies are ruling from decades? Did anyone from PPP ever think about it?
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Jan 17, 2016 12:25am
Nice. Wish him good luck and speedy recovery.
Please if you find sometime after returning back from your medical check up in New York, take a few minutes of your busy schedule and inquire about some kids dying in Thar which unfortunately is in Sindh
Thanks a lot
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Jan 17, 2016 01:37am
He has proved this saying wrong.
You befool some people at all times or befool all people at some times but you cannot befool all people at all times.
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Jan 17, 2016 02:28am
....while the children in Thar die daily, due to lack of basic facilities,minder PPP rule.
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Jan 17, 2016 05:36am
Pakistan's civil administration or politicians are very corrupt. They live abroad and visit Pakistan on a vacation. They have palaces in Europe and Dubai. Mostly doctor's
and surgeons are in USA from Pakistan or India. People's of Pakistan should think twice who elect when time come for election. We need to educate people's living in remote area's.
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Jan 17, 2016 07:25am
Our leader have no shame. Tharparker is losing children and Zardari will spend millions in check up/ vacation.
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Jan 18, 2016 04:57am
I hope he is spending his own money and not the public money. The doctors and the medications are the same every where you go. But these politicians don't trust our doctors and this notions that Doctors in US are better is totally false.
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Jan 18, 2016 11:44am
@aslam shaikh but he worked so hard to earn and even harder to inherit them
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