Secret Meeting of Asif Ali Zardari in Dubai
Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, left for Dubai in the evening of Pakistan Day on March 23rd. The “official” reason of the visit was to meet his family in Dubai. However, Zardari apparently went to Dubai to have secret negotiations with US officials, apparently to regain American trust and to discuss issues endangering his government. attempt to gain more time for his seat in the highest office.
Gulf News has reported that in Dubai President Zardari met with Richard Holbrooke, US Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Also present at the meeting was Pakistan Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the US Ambassador in the UAE Richard G. Olson, Jr.
His secret meetings with US officials raised many an eye brow in top Pakistani political and bureaucratic circles because he was not accompanied by any other official except Haqqani.
Even Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was not involved while Pakistani diplomats in the UAE were kept at bay.
Sources told Gulf News that Zardari was here to renegotiate his position in the wake of expected changes in the US policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan on its war against terrorism. The announcement of the new policy is expected this week.
Zardari is worried for his government after sharp increase in the popularity of his rival Nawaz Sharif, who gained massive support from people during the recent long march of lawyers.
The US did notice his public support and has established soft corner for Sharif otherwise ignored by the US in the past since his decision to conduct nuclear test a decade ago.
The Zardari government is concerned that Washington was paying more attention to Sharif.
The President was also alarmed by the positive reaction in Washington where the restoration of the deposed judges and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was instantly welcomed, erasing the impression that the US was somehow against the chief justice.
Sources said that increasing “intimacy” between the US and Sharif has created panic like situation in the Presidency.
Zardari was also busy in Abu Dhabi to negotiate some financial aid for Pakistan which urgently needs at least Dh10 billion to breath in the worst economic crisis in the country. But so far, there are no concrete results.
On his return, Zardari flown directly to Balochistan to resolve an attempted in-house coup against Balochistan Government. Then he gave his crapy speech in the Parliament today.
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