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[yazdi]

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@Shamraz_Khan

“Net Worth: $1-$4 billion”

So his income is somewhere between one dollar and 4 billion dollars. Couldn’t they have been little more precise? This is same old recycled story that as no facts. Simple fact is, no one knows about his wealth or any other politician’s wealth including Shareef bros. So, why blame him only?

Every Citizen of Pakistan is required to declare his true assets and the source of income to justify those assets. The accusations on Mr. Zardari are not solely based on speculations as you are suggesting.

1. There was a list published by NAB a few years ago which showed the existence of bank accounts in Switzerland worth US$ 1.8 billion where the actual ownership was suspected to be Mr. Zardari. Based on these suspicions Swiss authorities froze these bank accounts on the request of then Pakistani government. After NRO all these bank accounts were unfrozen and case was no longer persuaded by the Pakistan government because of the deal which was stuck between then President Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto. Who had given the mandate to Mr. Musharraf not to persuade these cases to bring back the suspected stolen money from the Swiss accounts.

2. There exists another account of US$ 60 million where Swiss Companies SGS/Cotecna have already admitted in a Swiss court of law that they have paid commissions to the BB/Zardari. These companies have already been convicted in Swiss court for these crimes. The account was already frozen and verdict of indictment was already announced by the Swiss courts in favor of Pakistan government. Suddenly Pakistan government decided not to persuade the case due to NRO which has been declared void ab-inition by Pakistan’s supreme court. This account was also unfrozen.

3. Mr. Zardari and Benazir Bhutto had denied for years the ownership of a property in Surrey UK worth millions of pounds which was never declared in their wealth statements submitted in Pakistan. When the property was sold a few years ago this couple claimed the sale proceeds through a British court of law. All this is well documented and is on record. Mr. Zardari has never bothered to show the source of income to buy this property in the first place.

4. Mr. Zardai and family live in a house in Dubai Emirate Hills which is worth at least US $20 million. The wealth and income tax record in Pakistan does not show their income which could justify the purchase of such an expensive property.

5. There are several known properties of Mr. Zardari and family all across the globe including a Chateau in France. There is no known source of income to justify the possession of assets worth this huge amounts.

All these are facts and yet you call them allegations/speculations. Just consider in USA if these so called speculations/allegations would have surfaced against President Obama.. what kind of hue and cry would have occurred. Yet when we Pakistanis demand a fair and impartial enquiry in to these known facts.. you call them speculations.. Morally no one should occupy the highest position in Pakistan without clearing his name first. How can you expect a common man to pay taxes if the President is in possession of all these assets and does not reveal his source of income. And when people demand him to declare the source of income he simply tries to hide behind his Presidential immunity clause for his personal alleged criminality. I just want to ask you a simple question:

If in USA President Obama tried to use Presidential Immunity to conceal this sort of alleged crimes, what would have been the reaction of the public?