NewsWednesday, March 12, 2008
Party wants me to be PM, says Asif Zardari
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that members of his party wanted him to become prime minister although it was not his “destination”, according to an Aaj TV report. He was addressing a press conference in Islamabad. Previously, PPP vice chairmen Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Yousaf Raza Gillani, PPP Punjab President Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and PPP leader Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar were being considered the frontrunners for the office of prime minister. Zardari did not contest the February 18 elections. To a question about the controversial Kalabagh Dam, he said the new government would not begin a project that would divide the nation. He said his party would focus on smaller dams instead. According to the channel, Zardari said providing jobs and security not only to PPP voters but to each and every citizen of Pakistan would be the new government’s top priority.
Courtesy Daily Times