ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The simmering crisis between Pakistan's government and judiciary flared dramatically on Thursday when the Supreme Court announced it would pursue contempt charges against the prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, for failing to reopen a corruption investigation into the finances of his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari. The...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Once they were heroes, cloaked justices at the vanguard of a powerful revolt against military rule in Pakistan, buoyed by pugnacious lawyers and an adoring public. But now Pakistan's Supreme Court is waging a campaign of judicial activism that has pitted it against an elected civilian government, in a legal fight that many...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A bitter legal clash between Pakistan's top court and its civilian government inched toward resolution on Thursday as the prime minister made a dramatic court appearance to ward off possible imprisonment while his legal team agreed to engage the court over the key issue of presidential immunity. Amid tight security and a...
Asif Ali Zardari (Urdu: آصف علی زرداری) (født 21. juli 1956) er Pakistans præsident.
Asif Ali Zardari deler sammen med sin søn Bilawal Bhutto Zardari formandsposten i det islamiske socialist og centrum-venstre parti Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Han er enkemand efter partiets tidligere leder Benazir Bhutto, der blev dræbt efter et attentat under hendes valgkamp i december 2007. Hun havde i to perioder fungeret som Premierminister i Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari er en pakistansk mafia-boss, forretningsmand og hund. Han har i perioder været politiker. Som politker har han haft et kontroversielt omdømme og blandt andet været dømt for korruption. Han stillede op til præsidentvalget i 2008 efter Pervez Musharrafs afgang. Ved valget 6. september, der foregik i Pakistans parlament, opnåede han et komfortabelt flertal og blev således Pakistans præsident. Tiltrædelsesceremoni den 9. september 2008, hvor Zardari afløser den midlertidigt fungerende præsident Muhammad Mian Soomro (Senatets formand), der har fungeret i embedet siden Musharraf fratrådte den 19. august 2008. Fold ud