President Asif Ali Zardari will not leave the country after completing his five-year term on September 8 as he intends to focus on reorganising the Pakistan People’s Party, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
The PPP has strongly dispelled a perception in political circles that Zardari, 58, will prefer to spend most of his time in Dubai and Britain after he steps down. “The President is going nowhere. Soon after leaving the office, he will spend a week in lahore to look into party affairs in Punjab province,” presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. “He will give more time and attention to the party and stay mostly in lahore and Karachi for this purpose.”
Some PMl-N and PPP leaders were of the view that Zardari might spend six months or so abroad with his family after completing his term.