We criticize zardari becuase he is the leader of ruling party.The person who is responsible to formulate and implement its policy.Is it seem logical that a person who was nothing before 1980s now has become Pakistan's richest person?How come?Can anyone share some detail of his sources of income?(of course legal ones)

The only way such corrupt rulers can be exposed is through honest judicial system.That's why they are doing their utmost to create hurdles in its way.

And the theory that because he is president,we should "respect" him is flawed.Even if a ruler makes a mistake and is corrupt we must point it out and there is no harm in it.At least our religion teaches us this.

A little piece of writing i want to share here.


Asif Ali Zardari hails from a feudal background - what that means is his father owned land, probably around a few thousand acres somewhere in rural Sindh. The locals who live and farm on the land pay the landlord a rent, or often times rent + half the produce from the land. Generally, this is the only legal source of income for most landlords.


Asif's family didn't have much land as compared to the larger Sindhi landlords, and like every other Pakistani landlord, their farming practices were backwards and highly inefficient, making them in essence relatively poor, as compared to the other much larger land owning families in Sindh. While always immensely rich compared to the average Pakistani, Asif grew up with a chip on his shoulder as the class he measured himeself against was much wealthier. Perhaps thats where his innate desire to go overboard on the pursuit of wealth grew from.
Feudal landholders in Pakistan are generally not very rich, despite impressions to the contrary. Their landholdings don't generate much income. With the spread of industry and urbanization, a number of landlords have become much richer as their lands were near growing cities, hence increasing their value many fold - which enables them to sell off bits and pieces to add to their income.


Asif Ali Zardari's father owned a small cinema in Karachi, and Asif used to make money on the side by selling cinema tickets, trading in cars, or selling off assets belonging to his family to make money. A life less ordinary, so to speak, there was never anything about him to suggest much more... till he somehow bumped into Benazir Bhutto.


Compared to the Bhutto family, the Zardari's were practically paupers - so it is one of the unsolved mystries in Pakistan how Benazir's mother accepted his marriage proposal for her daughter, and Benazir agreed to it. Such was the destiny of a nation determined, in the formal stilted marriage proposal - the bride and groom had not even met! What would a Harvard and Oxford educated woman have in common with a man who never went to college? In a way, accepting the marriage proposal was Benazir's first step (out of many) to putting her education well behind her: "Conscious of my religious obligations and duty to my family, I am pleased to proceed with the marriage proposal accepted by my mother." As a aside, there are a number of Ivy League educated feudal politicians in Pakistan, and none of them seem to have learned anything at all there, except how to better lie to western politicians and newspapers.


Getting back to Zardari, a few days/weeks before the marriage proposal, Asif was sitting at a car dealer's at Tariq Road in Karachi, trying to sell off one of his father's old Mercedes. A few days after the Marriage proposal, Asif was back in Tariq road, buying a fleet of brand new Mercedes!
Benazir Bhutto was power incarnate in Pakistan back than, a veritable goddess, revered everywhere she went as the saviour of Pakistan. In Pakistan, everything works through power, since everything works through the old boy network. By marrying into power incarnate, Zardari was suddenly elevated right to the top of both Pakistani society and also Pakistani influence - he knew everyone now, and could approach them to get things done.
A sudden influx of money poured into his lap, as feudal lords, politicians and businessmen rushed to do him favors to gain his friendship - the worth of which was increasing every day as the marriage preparations rushed forward, and the gifts kept pouring in.


Not having much money of his own, this was perhaps the time where Zardari got his first taste of wheeling and dealing, and getting things done for 'free' through his many new friends. Zardari was excellent as a sort of Facebook for the feudal politician turned businessmen, connecting them to each other through his ever increasing social network, paying back favours by getting work done for X by Y, and for Y by Z, in a ever increasing pyramid scheme of favours done and received, with Zardari getting a cut out of every transaction.


In due time, his wife became Prime Minister, and the sudden rush of even more power liberated Asif Ali Zardari from all semblance of sanity and threw him into a world where he could do anything - anything at all! And so he did, the one thing which he had always striven for his entire life - Money, Money and more Money. Now, one of the aspects of Zardari's personality is that there is no such thing as laws, morality, ethics or common sense - the way he sees it (again, common to the feudal kind) is that these are the chains of the lesser man, and he is not bound by anything.


During Benazir's two stints as leader of Pakistan, Zardari looted at least a billion US dollars from Pakistan - not just from cutbacks on govt. contracts, but he also got involved in industrial projects all over Pakistan, relying on equal parts of blackmail, intimidation and 'favours' There were other tactics too, of course, but here I suggest you watch a few mafia/gangster movies and the picture will be clear. As the "Godfather" trilogy makes clear, once you assume a position of practically unlimited power, people will line up from miles away and give you money in return for your 'blessings' on whatever it is you're trying to do - everything from import/export, to sugar mills, to exporting towels to the US - it's amazing how many pies Zardari had his finger in. It was around this time where he got the nickname Mr. 10%, for he somehow was involved and getting commisions on every single large deal of note in the country.
Zardari was the primary reason the Bhutto government was thrown out by the Pakistan Army - along with the fact that the army never liked her in the first place anyways. Somehow Zardari and his by now very much sidekick wife Benazir Bhutto managed to win back power for a second time, and despite hope to the contrary, the by now pair started on a unprecendented looting spree. African dictators had to redouble their efforts in corruption as Zardari and Benazir were catching up to them and threatening to pull ahead.


And so, the Army kicked them out of power yet again, and here is where Zardari and Benazir went their seperate ways - at some point Zardari ended up in jail and spent 10 odd years in and out of jail, while Benazir went globetrotting.


The exact amount of money Zardari stole is disputed of course, but just his very visible assets in Pakistan make up a significant proportion of that, and there are the houses across the world which credible (non political) people and newspapers and governments have confirmed. Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are both tied in joint second place for Pakistan's most corrupt - the first place is occupied by Musharraf's band of merry men, whose corruption stories are still slowly making it out to the public at large. The Swiss governement convicted him, and just one of his many mansions outside Pakistan is worth more than his entire legal net worth.


The interesting part about Zardari's life is that the only constant that he's always striven for is money - even after he had bucketfalls of it, he never slowed down in the quest to make more and more. In another life, in another world, if he hadn't gotten fixated on money at the cost of everything else, with that single minded determination applied to just about any other goal he could have really made something out of his life, instead of the pale twisted shadow of a human behing that he's now become.


So how did Zardari become President of Pakistan? By virtue of marriage - his wife was going to win the elections anwyays, she was shot dead just before, and for some strange reason her party selected Zardari to replace her. The primary reason was the sad fact that the ruling council of Benazir's party are themselves hideously incompetent - one key chap is a alchoholic basketcase, a couple are mentally retarded, quite a few others have the mental thinking prowess of 4-6 year olds, and none of them collectively have done a honest days work in thier lives.
So it wasn't much of a fight, and one thing Zardari has is determination and a do everything it takes will to win. It also helped that the competition is one over the hill cricketer and rest are just a bunch of interchangeble crooks.


So now that Zardari has both money and power, what has he done? One of the hopes people had for him is that while he's corrupt, he's at least competent and very street smart - so a lot of people thought that if he actually put his mind and will to it, he could achieve a lot for Pakistan. One of Zardari's first act as President was killing that hope, and banishing it far far away, never to trouble his conscience again, and today he sits as a sorry example of yet another hopelessly out of his depth corrupt crook. He's way beyond his competence level, and the most damning thing is that he doesn't even try to do the right thing.



A friend of mine once said, that Pakistan might be in a bad way, but at least it still functions to some extent - it's a long ways from being a failed state. Musharraf took that challenge to heart, and took Pakistan to the brink of civil war - the only reason there hasn't been more war is because the govt. of Pakistan has actually left vast terriroties of land inside Pakistan and 'outsourced' them to new management under various groups, like different breeds of Taliban, Al Queda, a number of Lashkars, and other various shady groups.


Zardari is continuing that policy of giving up more and more Pakistani land over to different groups of people, and as things go worse it looks like the major Pakistani cities will become islands of govt. control amidst ever growing chaos in the countryside. After the country side falls, the cities will be next. Despite all the many flowery speeches, the actual on the ground actions of the Zardari govt. remain more and more appeasement to whoever has guns. Strangely enough, both Musharraf and Zardari seem to have forgotten that the Pakistan army has a lot more guns than the people they keep handing over land to, and on top of that the Pakistan army is 100% backed by both the US Army as well as NATO.


Damned by birth, marriage and events, Zardari is perched on something that he doesn't seem to understand, and is doing all the wrong things to boot. Damned too is the country with leaders like Zardari.

Sadly, as ruler of Pakistan, the countries history is tied up with him, and while Zardari will either be dead or in exile in a few years, the country will continue suffering for decades the effects of his misrule. To be fair to Zardari, he is only continuing the norm of misrule as set in back in the '50's by Ghulam Mohammad and continued by every leader ever since.


Tell me who will make up for these 5 precious years of One Hundred and Eighty Million Pakistanis suffering from energy crisis,terrorism,poverty,protocols and above all corruption???



Disclaimer: The above may or not not be representative of the writer's views, or of those of anyone elses. One possible theory is that this view of reality might actually exist in it's own independent space time, from where it was emailed to me by a million chattering monkies.

A short history of Asif Ali Zardari


Here is the informal list of his assets.Those who ask to bring a legal documents, why put hurdles in the ways of those who are trying to get some real proofs?OR if this isn't feasible they should themselves declare all their assets to clear their position,who's stopping them?

Asif Zardari’s Assets in Pakistan & Abroad

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