World | Pakistan

Pakistan Peoples Party leader says he has big plans for Karachi

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari wants to bring development on the lines of Dubai to Karachi.

  • By Ashfaq Ahmed, Chief Reporter
  • Published: 13:10 August 30, 2008
  • Gulf News

  • Image Credit: AP
  • Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of Pakistan People's Party, has lived in Dubai.
Image 1 of 2
12

Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari wants to bring development on the lines of Dubai to Karachi.

"I want to develop Karachi like Dubai and bring prosperity and an economic boom to the country," Zardari said during a reception he held for parliamentarians in the city.

Zardari, who is impressed with massive development in Dubai, also lived there and regularly visit his children who are still living in the posh locality of Emirates Hill in the emirate.

He said that he would bring an economic stimulus package in the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) and tribal areas to root out militancy.

"I also know about economic crises and the feeling of deprivation of the people of Balochistan and I am determined to address them," he said.

He requested assembled parliamentarians to vote for him and claimed the support of tribals in all the four provinces of the country.

It may be recalled that Benazir Bhutto lived in Dubai in self-exile for about eight years before returning to Pakistan on October 18, last year.

Related Links

More from Pakistan

  1. Pakistan: US missiles kill five militants

  2. Pakistan death decree over wedding video

  3. Pakistan's Gilani backs expats’ right to vote

  4. Family of doctor in Bin Laden hunt blasts trial

All articles in Pakistan

More from World

Gulf News
Popular in World

More from world

News Editor's choice