Zardari doesn’t believe in horse-trading: Umar Rehman Malik

Staff Writer

Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Umar Rehman Malik said this week that PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari believed in democracy and had always discouraged horse-trading.

Speaking to Covert, Umar Rehman Malik said the PPP had sacrificed for democracy in its long history. “Asif Ali Zardari remained in jails for years. He sacrificed his family life and is still strongly working for the democratic order,” he added.

Umar Rehman Malik, the son of the late PPP veteran Senator Rehman Malik, predicted that the PPP under the leadership of Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will win the next general elections and form governments in the centre and the provinces.

He maintained that the PPP was not power hungry and had only become part of the government to ensure electoral reforms and free and fair elections.

Earlier, Asif Ali Zardari had himself said that he was a worker of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and did not believe in politics of horse-trading.

In a meeting with PPP lawmakers, Zardari said he believed in reconciliation and not in the politics of horse-trading, and presented himself for reconciliation on the political situation of the country and Punjab.

“I might have invested money, if Hasan Murtaza was the candidate for the Chief Minister of Punjab,” he said and asked why he would invest money on Hamza Shehbaz being a candidate for the Chief Ministership.

“I didn’t come to Lahore for the first time but had announced three months ago that I would do the politics sitting in Punjab,” he mentioned.