Scandal or no scandal how much money is enough? to satisfy the greed of Mr 10%, however no one knows unless Mr Zardari can share his mind with poor people of Pakistan. Instead of sucking the blood of poor every other five year these poor people of Pakistan might give him a one off payment to remove this curse of God for ever. No matter what ever you should do this evil genius will just come back again.
Most in Pakistan called him “Mr. Ten Percent”. Today they call him “Mr. 90%”. Most Pakistanis agree “chor choree say jayee, haira phairyee say na jayee”. The cancellation of he German Subs and the award to the French is one of the biggest scandals that will be executed when the French President Sarkozi arrives in Islamabad within the next few weeks. Mr. Zardari is the head of the government. According to the constitution he cannot hold the office of the presidency (chairmanship0 of the PPPP. That makes him a biased body. The president is supposed to be unbiased body representing the federation. Holding two offices in unconstitutional. Mr. Zardari has had charges proven against him and he got off scot free through a NRO that is now defunct (it was never ratified by the National Assembly).
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan averted a potentially destabilizing coalition split after the government abandoned efforts to push through a bill that would formalize an amnesty for President Asif Ali Zardari and some of his ministers from corruption charges.
The president’s problems aren’t over yet: If the bill isn’t passed, it could expose Mr. Zardari and the other ministers to a reopening of the corruption cases against them.
At issue is the so-called Nation Reconciliation Ordinance passed by former President Pervez Musharraf as part of a 2007 deal with Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister who was slain shortly after returning to Pakistan. The ordinance covered Mr. Zardari, who was the husband of Mrs. Bhutto and who faced a half-dozen graft charges and three murder charges. He denies them all, saying they were politically motivated.The Wall Street Journal.
The recent unearthing of a corruption scam involving the embattled Pakistani President Asif Zardari can eventually leave him with only two options – either to step down as a director of Park Lane Estates (Pvt) Limited or resign as the head of the state as keeping both the positions simultaneously is a violation of the country’s unanimously adopted 1973 Constitution.
President Zardari and his elder son Bilawal Bhjutto, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, have recently purchased 2,460 Kanals (307 acres) of prime land in Islamabad, worth over Rs 2 billion, for a mere throw away price of Rs 62 million. The land was purchased in March 2009 by a private company — Park Lane Estates (Pvt) Ltd, owned by Zardari and Bilawal. The Park Lane land is worth Rs 2 billion.
The unearthing of the scam has generated a heated debate across Pakistan, with the legal and constitutional experts maintaining that the president has violated the 1973 Constitution by keeping the position of director of a private company and the only way to rectify this violation was his removal from the coveted slot. Pakistan’s former law minister and renowned lawyer S M Zafar said that if the president was holding the office of director of a company then the second half of Article 43(1) of the Constitution applies, which amounts to misconduct, which could only be rectified by the impeachment of the president.
According to a former judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice (retd) Wajhiuddin Ahmad, if the president was continuously violating the Constitution and if he could not be impeached for practical reasons, then the Supreme Court could take notice of the issue under Article 184(3) of the 1973 Constitution and could declare that the incumbent of the office of the president had forfeited the office. He said that the president not only cannot hold any office of director of a private company but also cannot hold the office like co-chairman of any political party. “The process of impeachment is well defined in the Constitution,” he said while adding: “Even if President Zardari surrenders the office of the director of a private company, even then the violation of the Constitution has happened.”
A former federal law minister of the Musharraf regime Khalid Ranjha was of the view that Asif Zardari was violating the Constitution and this could amount to his disqualification. He said that the president has to surrender one of his offices. Another former law minister of the Benazir Bhutto cabinet Syed Iqbal Haider was of the view that not only the president but even a provincial minister or a federal minister cannot hold any partnership or directorship of any private company. Therefore, he said, it is a clear violation of the 1973 Constitution. “The silence of Presidency and all of those associated with the Park Lane land scam, Pakistan State Oil scandal and Pakistan Steel Mills scandal is giving authenticity to the scandals,” said Syed Iqbal Haider, a former PPP leader from Sindh, adding that: “Otherwise it would amount to disqualification of the President.” Pakistani President in troubled waters.
Mr. Asif Zardari has lost all moral and legal authority to remain president of Pakistan. Even if he resigns as President of Park Lane and the PPPP, he has failed to live up his own promises of reversing the 17th amendment, canceling 58-2(b)and restoring the constitution to its 1973 origins. Facing immanent defeat in the next elections, if Mr. Zardari does not exit the presidency now, he will jeopardize his entire party.
A July Supreme Court ruling declared the NRO had to be passed by parliament and gave a three-month deadline.
Parliament was to start a debate on the bill this week. Its decision to abandon the bill came after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday declined to support the bill, saying it would legitimize corruption. The chief of the movement, which has a stronghold in the country’s financial capital, Karachi, advised Mr. Zardari to face the charges.
The government’s climb down averts a potential embarrassment. But it throws open the question of what happens if the bill isn’t passed. Legal experts say the most likely result would be that the ordinance lapses, potentially reopening the charges.
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Asif Ali Zoordari has no connection to Mr 10 % this is just a coincident that last name of the author sound similar
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