Asif Ali Zardar - I am not interested in power, want to serve masses

Former President and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said that he was not interested in coming into power but only wanted to serve the masses of the country.Speaking to party workers and office bearers belonging to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA here, he said when the ‘PPP moves it jolts all others’, adding that mid-term elections would have been held if his party put its weight behind Imran Khan’s PTI led protests against the government last year.“We are watching the political game, political moves and waiting for the right time to arrive… let those play to whom we provided a bat and ball,” said the former president.“Let them put the economy back on track… it will be good if they succeed, but if they don’t then those provoking us must understand that if I stand up then not only Sindh but every town from Khyber to Karachi would be shut.”Commenting on former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, Zardari said that the former president, who he said still acts like a commando, cannot even spend three months in a Pakistani jail.“Musharraf does not know how many threats Pakistan is facing currently, but I do,” he remarked.Hewarned against character assassination of his party, saying if they started doing the same then no one would be spared including army generals. “Army is our institutions,\” he added.Addressing the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Zardari said, “you are in power for three years and then you’ll have to leave … and I don’t want the national institutions to weaken”.“If attempts are made to agitate us then we’ll respond accordingly,” said the aggressive looking PPP co-chairman.Addressing the party workers, he said that they had to learn a lot and he had to teach them. “At the time of BB’s [former prime minister Benazir Bhutto] martyrdom, I said Pakistan khappay (long live Pakistan)… but, there’s a limit to everything,” he concluded.PPP Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was also present on the occasion.

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