asif ali zardari

Asif Ali Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari

Biography for Asif Ali Zardari 

Date of Birth
21 July 1956, Karachi, Pakistan 


Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m) 


Spouse
Benazir Bhutto (18 December 1987 - 27 December 2007) (her death) 3 children


Trivia
After their arranged marriage was announced on July 29, 1987, Asif sent Benazir roses every day and gave her a heart shaped ring of diamonds and sapphires.


Has three children from the marriage to former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (b. 1988), Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari (b. 1990) and Asifa Bhutto Zardari (1994).


Brother-in-law of Sanam Bhutto.


Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari named their Karachi house "Bilawal House". Bilawal is the name of their son.


Brother of Farial Talpur (politician).


His wife was assassinated in a suicide attack in Rawilpindi after a successful speech on 27th of December 2007.


Their house in Dubai is in Emirates Hills region.


Is three years younger than his wife Benazir Bhutto.


He is a citizen of Dubai.


His daughter Bakhtawar migrated from Dubai to London in order to complete her education in Oxford university where her brother also is a student.


In January 2007, there were rumors that Benazir and Asif were divorcing but soon PPP contradicted these reports, terming them "baseless propaganda" against the PPP and its leaders. Benazir Bhutto's spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that it was a "baseless, false and bogus story". He said that Benazir and Zardari were living together and had no differences and they were still in love.


At the family home in Dubai, where she lived in exile, Benazir Bhutto's bedroom is locked. On the bedside table sits the manuscript of a book she finished writing a day before she was killed. "I sleep in the next room, because the children and I don't want to lose her scent,". says Asif Ali Zardari Bhutto's widower.




Personal Quotes
I cannot abandon my dear wife and children. I would rather die than abandon all of you.


Benazir Bhutto is like the Shakespearean tragedy. The people of Pakistan want her, the world appreciates her, her qualifications are beyond comparison in Pakistan, but yet some feel they can do without her. She has managed to keep herself intact, her charisma intact, me intact in prison, the party intact, the public support intact. You must remember the tremendous odds that she was fighting against. For a singular party or a singular lady, or even a man for that matter, to bear it and manage to survive is a great victory. There is nothing that the establishment didn't do against us. I told one establishment representative that there are people in politics around because of you and some are there despite you, so please give us that respect. - (on Benazir Bhutto (2005))


It's not a sad day...it is the darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country and in my whole life. (On Benazir Bhutto's assassination.)


(on his wife in United Nations General Assembly - Sep 2008) The Bhutto doctrine of reconciliation is a road map not only to a new Pakistan, but to a new era of peace and co-operation between East and West, between people of all faiths, a road map that if followed will avoid a clash of civilizations and clash of religions that is the terrorists' ultimate goal. The Bhutto doctrine is the new century's equivalent of the Marshall Plan that saved Europe after World War II.


Benazir Bhutto's assassination was a kind of shock that could shake Pakistan for years.