Efforts underway for my arrest: Zardari

Author: Agencies

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari late Monday night said efforts were underway to arrest him but that there was no evidence against him.

“Ways are being found to arrest me but they are unable to find any evidence,” he said while addressing an event in Nawabshah.

The former president quipped that he has been arrested previously too would only get more famous if arrested again.

“I was sent to jail on political grounds…no one had to go behind bars on [these] grounds in PPP tenure,” Zardari said.

He also claimed former and current prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, respectively, were brought to power through a deal.

“Those who get deals done bring such people to power but then they are unable to run the country,” he said, adding that PPP came into power without any deal and proved that they can run the country.

The former president has previously made similar claims, saying that it was actually the PPP’s unflinching support for 18th Amendment due to which vindictive steps were being taken against Zardari.

Published in Daily Times, November 7th 2018.

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