Asif Ali Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari son of Mr. Hakim Ali Zardari, born on 26 July 1955 at Nawabshah-Pakistan
On his maternal side, he is great grandson of Khan Bahadar Hasan Ali Effendi who was the founder of the Sindh Maddarssa. The Madfarssa was first modern School for Muslims in Sindh. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also a student at the Sindh Maddarssa.
On his maternal side, he is great grandson of Khan Bahadar Hasan Ali Effendi who was the founder of the Sindh Maddarssa. The Madfarssa was first modern School for Muslims in Sindh. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also a student at the Sindh Maddarssa.
Social Status :
i. Director - M/s Zardari Group (Pvt.) Ltd.
ii. Agriculturist
Political Status :
i. Member National Assembly 1990-93 and 1993-96
ii. Federal Minister of the Environment 1993-1996
iii. Federal Minister of Investment 1995-96
Transformed the power sector by encouraging major investment opportunities in the power policy of
Pakistan. He was also the architect of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline.
iv. Senator 1997 - 1999
v. Co-Chairman, Pakistan Peoples Party - 2008 onwards
Marital Status :
Widower - (Wife: Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, former twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan)
and has three children, Bilawal, born on 21 September 1988 in Karachi, Bakhtwar, born in 1990
and Aseefa, born in 1993.
i. Director - M/s Zardari Group (Pvt.) Ltd.
ii. Agriculturist
Political Status :
i. Member National Assembly 1990-93 and 1993-96
ii. Federal Minister of the Environment 1993-1996
iii. Federal Minister of Investment 1995-96
Transformed the power sector by encouraging major investment opportunities in the power policy of
Pakistan. He was also the architect of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline.
iv. Senator 1997 - 1999
v. Co-Chairman, Pakistan Peoples Party - 2008 onwards
Marital Status :
Widower - (Wife: Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, former twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan)
and has three children, Bilawal, born on 21 September 1988 in Karachi, Bakhtwar, born in 1990
and Aseefa, born in 1993.
Political background :
Mr. Zardari spent 20 years working with Former Prime Minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. He spent 11 and a half years in prison in conditions often unacceptable by human rights standards, without a single case successfully proven against him. Despite many offers from the government of the time to leave the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) or to go abroad under a negotiated political exit, he remained committed to Party goals and continued his fight for justice and the return of a democratically elected civilian leadership.
After the assassination of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Mr. Zardari was elected unopposed by the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Party Peoples Party and asked to become Chairman of the Party. He nominated his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for that role and instead accepted the job of Co-Chairman of the PPP. After Ms. Bhutto's death he has remained in the frontlines of shaping a national consensus at the federal level on the politics of reconciliation initiated by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.
Under Mr. Zardari's leadership of the Party, the PPP's candidate for Prime Minister Syed Yusaf Raza Gillani was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan unopposed. This was a singular and unprecedented event in Pakistan's political history.
