Corrupt President Zardari sees popularity sink
Local Monday, August 31st, 2009President Asif Ali Zardari, whose popularity has sunk nearly a year after assuming his office, has done little to connect with the Pakistani public or attempt to address popular concerns, a dispatch in a major US newspaper said Saturday.
‘Pakistanis still call him ‘Mr 10 per cent’, a reference to corruption allegations that have dogged him since stints in previous decades as a Cabinet Minister’, The Los Angeles Times said in a dispatch from Islamabad.
‘The media jabs his inability to solve myriad crisis, ranging from daily power shutdowns to a moribund economy. He gets little to no credit for the military offensive to tame local Taliban forces’. ‘None of it fazes him’, Fauzia Wahab, MNA, Information Secretary of PPP and a close ally of Zardari, was quoted as saying about the President.
‘He will come out of it’, she said.
He is being portrayed as the worst kind of man. But he waits because he’s seen those days when he was portrayed as the villain of the country. He is a very patient person, she added.
‘The rest of the country may not be as patient’, remarked the paper, saying the 54-year-old widower of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is ‘widely viewed in Pakistani society not as a helmsman, but a bystander’.
It’s an image that is largely of Zardari’s own making, the paper cited analysts who contend that he has failed to forge any kind of connection with the Pakistani public.
‘Zardari’s public appearances are infrequent and he has held only two news conferences, both with visiting heads of state alongside’, the paper added. ‘He has yet to set foot in the Swat Valley, a region his troops retook from Taliban insurgents who had extended their reach to within an hour’s drive of the capital’.
‘He knows how to work a crowd of politicians, but he doesn’t know how to connect with the public’, a columnist was quoted as saying.
‘There’s a sense that the guy’s in charge but doesn’t really know where he is. Has it sunk in yet that he’s President of 167 million people, and that it’s not about running a business anymore?’.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=193965
No doubt President Zardari is a very patient person. A malicious campaign against Zardari is underway to drag down his popularity. Despite President Zardari’s reasonable working, our media is not only not acknowledging his services, but also acting terribly hostile. The contradiction needs investigation. We admire his courage and tenacity in standing up to the odds stacked against him for a lifetime in prison for cases he was never convicted for. Any move against democratic government or President would be disastrous for country.