All parties should unite to present motion against PTI govt's incompetence, says Zardari
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Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday said that the incumbent government has shown its incompetence in a very short span of time and now "all political parties should unite and present a motion against the government's failure".
While addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Zardari said that a principle-based decision will have to be made to correct the direction in which the country is currently heading.
"The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is calling peoples' servants to answer questions in investigations, the same has happened in the time of former president Pervez Musharraf," he said.
Answering a question, Zardari said he did not make any remarks about the NAB chairman, rather he raised questions about the latter's thinking and manner of work.
Without naming anyone, the former president said that when some people are given charge of an important office, their manners change completely.
"When I became the president I transferred all powers to the parliament," he recalled, "But Nawaz Sharif did not like any of our policies."
Speaking of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Zardari said he was still facing the cases formed against him during PML-N's government.
The former president claimed he did not take any advantage of NRO but said that parties like MQM and people like Nawaz Sharif may have taken advantage of it.
Zardari claimed the people's party gave China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and many other programmes to Pakistan during their tenure.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:29pm
Mr. 10-30 percent you have no shame, no credibility and no moral values. You nurtured corruption in every institution of Pakistan, looted Pakistan's money, shipped it overseas in launches and thru model girls. You destroyed Pakistan infrastructures such as roads, water supply, water treatment, hospitals and schools. You should be in jail instead of Parliament and not talk about governance of Pakistan.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:30pm
Even if PPP gave programmes like CPEC, no big deal, it was their duty to serve, but it was not their duty to extract money from developing projects and invest abroad. After diehard efforts to get some bail out from grave corruption cases, and failing in any sort of amnesty from PTI government, Mr Zardari got frustrated and talking about moving against PTI. Please try your all cards, you’ll fail continuously
unless you are cleared from money laundering and fake account cases.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:30pm
This government is only two months old. Give them some more space to prove its capability.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:33pm
Imran Khan hai just decided to have alook at Thar, he has not visited as yet and they are loosing their minds.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:34pm
imran khan said they will unite and cry.and he was spot on
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Oct 21, 2018 08:36pm
All thieves will unit. Take one by one otherwise they may win to fix present setup
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Oct 21, 2018 08:41pm
Look, who is talking?
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Oct 21, 2018 08:49pm
Now what has prompted this?
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Oct 21, 2018 08:49pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad - Mr 10%.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:50pm
@nisar - Spot on.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:53pm
Threat to zardari and sharifs threat to democracy. We don’t need your democracy.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:01pm
“...Zardari claimed the people's party gave China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and many other programmes to Pakistan during their tenure...”
What do you mean “gave”? Why do you politicians want the electorate to be grateful for when you do you job? You get paid for this work (and extract other benefits). Use the word “gave” if PPP had paid for the CPEC! not when it was part of the job that we the people have paid for.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:21pm
Desperate times call for desperate press conferences
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Oct 21, 2018 09:22pm
lie a thousand times, so people start believing you but in Zardari's case he has lied so many times that nobody believes him but himself
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Oct 21, 2018 09:23pm
I am amused everything time I hear Bilawal and Zardari call Imran Khan a "select" prime minister. How can they forget how they became leaders of PPP. They are there only because of their links with Benazir. They have done nothing to become leaders of PPP. At least Imran has been struggling for the last 20 years.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:23pm
Trying to save his skin
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Oct 21, 2018 09:24pm
When Imran Khan says that he would go after the corrupt and stop money laundering people tell him that this can not be the basis of any economic reforms. They say a sound economic policy needs to be put in place. But the truth is that no economic policy would work, even those made by the economists of Harvard, if corruption, money laundering and dishonesty continue. Pakistan's economic turmoil is not because our economy has no potential to grow but because corruption and money laundering at the helm of affairs sucked the potential of our economy. IK's fight against corruption, money laundering and dishonesty would not only lay the foundation for a practical economic policy but a prosperous Pakistan propelled by motivated, passionate and honest Pakistanis who want nothing but growth for their beloved country.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:24pm
Somebody must shut these attitudes for ever --- need a gillotine perhaps.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:26pm
Yes Mr. ZARDARI your time is coming. That why you and the other thieves are starting making noise because soon it will be your turn.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:29pm
@nisar you are just blaming Zardari with out any credible information.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:31pm
You please stay back Mr Zardari.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:31pm
@Mohsin "Now what has prompted this?"
Fear of investigation and arrest obviously
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Oct 21, 2018 09:34pm
It seem that the pressure and guilt have spoken.Corruption cannot hide.Well done captain.Your bait has worked.Nab all those who have looted this country. We all support you for this.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:34pm
He hopes to correct the direction in which he is headed. To prison.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:40pm
One of the greatest leader of pakistan. Mr zardari was an amazing ruler .
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Oct 21, 2018 09:45pm
@Magnanimous approach
CPEC is actually China's initiative. They have similar programs with Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia and also the New Silk Road which conacts China to Eupore and UK.
It so happened that PPP was in power when China started the negotiations and started implementation in PML-N was in power.
The credit goes to China for it , but ofcourse Pakistan will also get benefit of the investment.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:57pm
Also your USA ambassador Haqqani turned out to be a traitor. V bad choice of people.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:05pm
Pakistan is suffering from the incompetence, corruption, possibly sedition and India collaboration of the pre-Imran Khan era traitors. Unless the actors of the previous eras are fully punished and the looted wealth brought back into Pakistan, things cannot change much. Let us give Mr. Khan's government a few years to change
and correct the mess.
Why are so many opposition leaders so afraid of NAB or being audited if their slate is clean?
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Oct 21, 2018 10:07pm
Leopard doesn't change his spots - be aware of Zardari!
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Oct 21, 2018 10:08pm
Karl Marx said, "all the workers of the world unite". But, Mr Asif Ali Zardari says, "all the corrupt and thieves of Pakistan unite".
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Oct 21, 2018 10:08pm
@Magnanimous approach Pakistan should try the China model against the past era corrupt traitors.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:09pm
Zardari: the government cant continue no more.
Breaking News: NA247 - Sindh votes PTI.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:09pm
Yes ! Pakistan is heading once again towards it's renovation. Not to mention, the GDP growth was declined about 5% during your tenure. Likewise corruption was it's full swing. It should be stopped, Pakistan should not recuperate itself by handing over the power to PTI. We all shall unite and take steps against the incumbent.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:20pm
What about the most competent government of Sind, which is there for last 11 years and unable to collect the garbage of Karachi only, leave rest of the other basic facilities. Instead, the entire has been converted into garbage. I believe that we should start calling this province again Mohin Jo Daro.
All the opposition is united because the question about their earnings have been asked first time genuinely and they all the exposed. If there are culprits in PTI then why they didn't expose them?
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Oct 21, 2018 10:26pm
Look who is talking? During 5 years of PPP government and 5 years of PML government, not only there was shocking incompetence but unprecedented corruption and nepotism, PIA and Steel Mills which were profitable earlier became bankrupt, just like other institutions due to political meddling. On top of that, both Zardari and Nawaz are guilty of looting and plundering the country. If they had been in any other country they would be in prison. The people of Pakistan demand accountability of all corrupt politicians.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:53pm
Mr zardari, We want to see you behind bars as soon as possible. We haven't forgotten Miss Ayyan ali. We see kids dying in Thar. At least in KPK and punjab, the situation is not that bad. May be you should lead a procession against your own government in Sindh. That will make things a lot better.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:55pm
Shame is obviously not his strong point.
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Oct 21, 2018 11:00pm
How do they not feel guilty saying all this
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Oct 21, 2018 11:15pm
Looks from Zardari statement about Motion, that he is just a step away from jail for his corruption and money laundering.
Indeed PTI govt did not come up to mark, but still PTI has margin of time, after its china visit about a week result will be concluded, nation need to be patient.
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Oct 21, 2018 11:17pm
PPP didn’t initiate CPEC. China initiated it through shrewd diplomacy. The credit goes to China and not PPP. PTI will renegotiate all aspects and CPEC will proceed to yield fruits in about 20 or 25 years. PMIK is a great leader
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Oct 21, 2018 11:25pm
And previous PML-N government was so “competent” that Pakistan ended up on FATF greylist!!!
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Oct 21, 2018 11:38pm
Now i am sure that IK has pressed some right button against corruption.
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Oct 21, 2018 11:46pm
@Suleman collect Politicians calling select conference
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Oct 21, 2018 11:51pm
Thanks but no Thanks. Your era still haunts us.
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Oct 21, 2018 11:52pm
His eight sugar mills are in trouble ...... he is making a move to counter that.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:14am
No doubt I see Asif Zardari in jail within weeks. It’s just a matter of time now. Cases are strong against him and might need approval/move of PM as IK is holding interior ministry.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:18am
worried mr PPP for accountability!
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Oct 22, 2018 12:22am
So country headed in the right direction when Zardari and Nawaz were in power? NO. They and their families looted the nation with both hands.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:23am
Thieves are getting nervous. Keep going PTI...lets see where
they try next. Killing and looting are the trademarks of the PPP
and PMN -N ,they have lots of ill gotten and looted money to pay
to destabilize the Goverment.
Pakistan First !
LEA and Intelligence agencies should be on alert
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Oct 22, 2018 12:40am
Words of MP Imran are coming true. PM stated that the corrupt would unite to save their skin. It only took them 2 months to fear Imran and the potential positive changes in Pakistan. NAB will soon put Zardari and his cronies away sooner rather than later. Clock is ticking.....
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Oct 22, 2018 01:05am
Mr. Zardari, PPP's performance and your corruption has been the worst ever for Pakistan. We hope the people of interior Sind realize this sooner than later and make you completely irrelevant.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:06am
Yes, all parties must unite and present a motion against the incompetent PPP's government which has destroyed Karachi. AND my advice to PTI, stop whining and try to focus on most pressing issues.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:16am
See who is talking.
He is saying two different things at the same time
1- To be united alliance against PTI
2- Blaming NS league for cases on him
How can you united with PML-N and other when you talking two different things and try to give excuse that "I didn't done anything wrong"
I think it's another game to weaken other parties, so that they might jump on his plan and PPP sit aside and watch the game..
Time to harvest what you seed...
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Oct 22, 2018 01:20am
No shame. Your whole ppp and PMLN parties should be banned. InshaAllah I pray all the parties who are fraudlants, money grabbers, evil, etc... should be banned and people running the show.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:31am
PM Khan is right. The union of the corrupt is screaming and doing all they can for their survival. They will not escape this time. No compromise will be made on accountability
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Oct 22, 2018 01:33am
Too late.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:33am
Another slogan borrowed from somewhere else. Family based political parties are on a downward spiral
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Oct 22, 2018 01:33am
Pot calling kettle..!
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Oct 22, 2018 01:34am
@Khaja They cant, if they give PTI space, they will be exposed even more.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:46am
Most of those present probably don't have much of an interest in Pakistan's future (besides it being a cow they could milk for as long as possible) because their children are settled out of Pakistan or have dual nationalities. I don't know how much truth there is to it, but apparently the elder Zardari owned a couple of cinemas and some land in rural Sindh. Has anyone in PPP asked the younger Zardari where he got the swathes of land from he owns now? Or where did 2400 kanals of commercial land in the heart of Islamabad that the youngest Zardari Bhutto recently declared in his nomination papers came from? To these lovers of Pakistan and their cronies, competence has another meaning. If IK had agreed to their model of govt 'kabhi tum kabhi hum', they would have been more than happy to give him the space, as long as he was doing everything in self interest and not for the people of Pakistan.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:49am
Nisar
I agree with your comments wholeheartedly. Mr Zardari and PPP are corrupt to their core. He has no shame. PPP has destroyed Sindh.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:59am
@nisar 241 recommendation says it all. Mr. Zardari should bring back all the laundered money and the money from Swiss bank account and the proceeds of Surry Palace. Zardari should also show from where he got all the money to build so many Bilawal and Zardari houses all over the world. Unfortunately all witnesses, lawyers, prosecutors, judges and the latest custom officer who caught Ayan Ali all died of accidental death.
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Oct 22, 2018 02:11am
@nisar you are beauty man. .
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Oct 22, 2018 02:27am
Zardari needs to fix corruption in Sindh first then he should talk some thing else.
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Oct 22, 2018 02:28am
@Suleman struggling? in what? politics? no he has been as collection donations.
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Oct 22, 2018 02:46am
IK is doing too much honest stuff and it is not easy anymore for the corrupt to live happily in the country. He is making the criminals most wanted very uncomfortable.
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Oct 22, 2018 02:53am
I think it is fair to say that even if PTI government delivers ZERO, they will still be better than both PP and PML-N governments because both of them delivered -VE.
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Oct 22, 2018 02:56am
Looks like investigators are getting closer.
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Oct 22, 2018 03:23am
@Ob CPEC was started during the great tenure of General Musharraf.
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Oct 22, 2018 03:38am
Don’t destroy the economy and the country in the process.
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Oct 22, 2018 03:45am
@Khan
Mr. Khan,
PPP and PML-N are corrupt but PPP is worse
than PML-N.
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Oct 22, 2018 04:16am
@Salman Dasti you obviously dont live in Sindh.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:02am
@Talha : Lot of hot air about Pakistan's economy and its potential. What is Pakistan exporting?
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Oct 22, 2018 05:04am
@nisar well stated, agree with you.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:16am
Waiting for Container season to begin!
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Oct 22, 2018 05:54am
@Talha good spot there, when the status quo parties say sound economic policy, they actually mean you do the same. Take loans and plunder all the wealth you can.
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Oct 22, 2018 05:56am
The people of Pakistan awarded the PPP with the worst defeat after its five years reign, yet still, Zardari believes that his government was blessing for the country.
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Oct 22, 2018 06:12am
@nisar You just nailed it perfectly in your words Kudos brother.
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Oct 22, 2018 06:13am
@Nadeem He sure did and he was so right thanks for the reminder brother bravo.
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Oct 22, 2018 07:21am
China gave CPEC to Pakistan! You can’t even end famine in Thar dessert let alone doing anything good for entire Pakistan.
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Oct 22, 2018 07:23am
One thing all party leaders to understand. This country is not your property. People elect you in elections. Tax payers pay for your wages, traveling, eating, accommodation, luxury cars and etc. If you start any project why you take honorship? If you paid from your pockets or party funds than is ok
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Oct 22, 2018 10:58am
He is protesting because he’s scared of NAB. His turn is about to come.
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Oct 23, 2018 08:26am
5 years Zardari ruled the country. Ask him to name one major project he completed. All his life , he has been an unscrupulous wheeler dealer amassing wealth beyond his income.
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Oct 23, 2018 08:33am
Mullah Fazalur Rehman, man of the ‘Book’ yet sold his soul for worldly gains. He is a shifting sand, his motto- follow the power no matter where the track leads.
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Oct 23, 2018 01:58pm
"The pot calling the kettle black" never had such a profound meaning."
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Oct 24, 2018 11:17am
Enough has been said, and there have been tons of comments. Now. it's time for action. The government should enact an ironclad legislation, that will allow them to lock all these thieves in prison and throw away the key, and move forward with the process of building a newer, cleaner Pakistan.
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Oct 24, 2018 11:22am
@Khaja I agree with you. People are being too impatient, and demanding IK to do more. I think he is doing all that is humanly possible. So. please be patient and encourage him in his efforts, rather than criticizing him. He is the only good that has happened for our country, in the last 30 years!
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Oct 24, 2018 12:41pm
Dont let the zardari leave country
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