Source: Express Tribune
Reports suggest president has gone on a scheduled one-day trip. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari left for Dubai on a scheduled one-day trip on Thursday, local television stations reported, amid growing tension over a memo seeking US help in preventing a coup by the military.
The president’s trip comes during the worst tensions between Pakistan’s civilian government and the military since a coup in 1999.
Gulf-based Pakistani sources said Zardari would make the trip for a medical check-up. “This trip will be for a follow-up medical check-up and then he’ll be returning right away,” an associate of Zardari said.
However, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said Zardari had left Pakistan to attend a wedding in Dubai. No official confirmation of either story was available immediately.
Zardari went to Dubai for medical treatment last month, triggering speculation that a military take-over in the nuclear-armed South Asian nation was imminent. He returned home a couple of weeks later.
To me it looks, Zardari, Kayani and Ch Iftikhar are testing the last limit of each other. In the tussle of this Trika fate of whole country and its people seems to be doomed.