Zardari returns to Presidency but again proves he is ‘not a man of his words’

Already infamous for his denial to honor commitments, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has once again sealed the Presidency for another five-year term, defying his own statement he uttered in September 2013 of not holding the Office again.

Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as 14th President of Pakistan on Saturday by securing 411 votes from the Electoral College.

It’s the second time that Zardari is set to reside in the President House. Previously, he held the Presidency from September 9, 2008 to September 9, 2013.

Interestingly, talking to journalists a day before his first Presidency term was over in September 2013, Zardari told them that neither he would hold the Presidency again nor become the Prime Minister in the future. Rather, he announced that he was set to flex his muscle against the then newly-arrived Nawaz Sharif regime.

However, as politicians are, to a great extent, deemed as hypocrite for huge difference found in their statements and actions, Zardari is not disappointing either and now returning to the Presidency which he had once left with the resolve of not eying at again.

In fact, it’s not the first time that the PPP Co-Chairman is betraying his own words as following the assassination of his wife and two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007, Asif Ali Zardari showed extreme reluctance to hold any Public Office and categorically used to deny that he was willing to become the President or the Prime Minister after his PPP won 2008 polls. Though he afterwards ran in the Presidential Election and succeeded.

And later when the issue of the reinstatement of the sacked judges created a rift between PPP and PML-N in 2008 and; though the two parties had signed a written agreement over it, Zardari refused to honor his previous commitment, saying that ‘political agreements are not words of the Quran and the Hadith’.