Asif Ali Zardari ,President of Pakistan to 11

Asif Ali Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari (born July 22, 1955) is the President of Pakistan since 9 September 2008 from the Pakistan People's Party (Pakistan People's Party, PPP). Zardari is the husband of Benazir Bhutto (late) who had become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Before becoming president, he was jailed for 11 years. One case, he and his wife accused of stealing state funds amounting to 1.5 billion U.S. dollars or equivalent to Rp 14.18 trillion. In addition, he was also convicted for murder. There are at least two murder cases to drag his name.


In 1990, he was jailed for killing Murtaza proved Bukgara (employers) using controlled bomb from a distance. At that time, his wife has lost his power. When she rose again to power in 1993, he was free from prison and even appointed a minister. When Nawaz Sharif became prime minister, he faced the court and remanded in custody (1997-2004). He was convicted of killing his wife's brother, Murtaza Bhutto.


The smell of corruption and experience as a prisoner attached to the figure of Zardari was the breaking down, so eventually he was elected president. Though it was released from prison in 2004 and his name cleared of the 17 cases of corruption, murder and smuggling of narcotics and dangerous drugs (drugs) like he was never a deterrent so that the president and called "wolf man".


Corruption-related cases, he and his associates were accused of money the state earned about 200 million U.S. dollars or equivalent to Rp 1.89 trillion. The money received from the French military contractors as a thank you. Receive a "patch bay" is indeed one of his bad habits, so he was mocked as "Mr Ten Percent". Case "patch bay" the other is a Swiss company which carried out between 1994 and 1996. Money he had received made him included in the list of the top five richest man of Pakistan. But then his power as president as precarious. He became a figure of the most scorned by the people. In addition to the man dubbed as a womanizer, he threatened removed from office and prosecuted for various cases, including corruption over the past two decades.


Once elected president, he continued to undermined his authority as leader of the unscrupulous. He continued reviled, mocked, and reviled. The issue is the most widely spoken of which related to allegations of corruption. Throughout the history of Pakistan, he would become head of state who will go down in the conditions covered in the error. In fact, he rose to power with promises to uphold and restore the parliamentary law father-in-law introduced in 1973.


Amendments to the Act which was signed on Monday 18 April 10, 2010 will be repeated four decades of abuses by the military authorities of the constitution. The law changes that would cause it threatened removed from office and appointing new leaders of the influential military. Can also reduce the political tension heats up since he was elected president.


On December 6, 2011, he suffered a mild heart attack and underwent surgery in Dubai. With the absence of President Asif, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani is responsible for the implementation of government