ALTAF HUSSAIN, THE BHAI (DON) OF PAKISTAN

The Killers of Syed Salhuddin  and Hakeem Saeed and numerous other noble souls including Advocate Iqbal Ra’d and Shuhadah of May 12 Karachi carnage and burnt alive lawyers etc are now talking about revolution just to make their own ridicule.

MQM had taken Karachi hostage and started bhatta system and paid mercenaries for Zionists and their offspring like CIA, KGB and RAW etc.

These Satanic forces used MQM to kill many innocent people in the worst possible way like drilling live human being. Altaf Hussain who was purchased by CIA and groomed and owned by CIA is now living in the protecting lap of British masters.

The American Embassy has profusely rewarded MQM and issue hundreds if not thousands of VISAs on the recommendation of this number 1 terrorist of Pakistan.

MQM is one of the most notorious organizations of the world with full backing of World Zionism and its agents and allies e.g. USA, UK, French, Germany, Russian Governments and Brahmins of India. Like the Global Terrorists i.e. Israelis it always presents itself as the most innocent and deprived one.

MQM has created a culture of forceful tax (bhatta) and indiscriminate as well as discriminate killings of innocent and particularly Islamic people in Pakistan.

Altaf Hussain visited India and spoke at length all kinds of nonsense against Pakistan.  Altaf Hussain’s main achievements are as follows:

Creating division among Muslims of Pakistan. He and his MQM raised slogans against Sindhi, Punjabi and Pathans of Pakistan and insulted them publically.

MQM killed poor Rickshaw drivers, small vendors, laborers

MQM killed Iqbal Ra’d, Hakeem Saeed, Syed Slahuddin (on orders of Aga Khan), and many Quranic scholars in day light

MQM created torture centers where they drilled living human beings with electric drill machines.

One such example is the son of Abdur Rehman Siddiqui, councilor of Block 10, Federal B Area Karachi, and his son was abducted on 1st Ramadan by MQM activists and the dead body was found after Iftar.

When the father gave bath to the dead body of his beloved son he found numerous electric drill holes all over body. I knew personally Abdur Rehman who is very humble, polite and helpful friendly person. There are numerous other murders like these have been created by MQM

MQM killed political opponents and even its own party members including its General secretary Azeem Tariq and convenor Dr Imran Farooque MQM killed potentially rival personalities including Aslam Mujahid who was considered to be the next candidate for Nazim of Karachi

MQM created a wave of hatred among Muslims while Altaf had good and cordial relations with the leaders of other anti Islam and anti Pakistan political organizations. He never spoke a single word against Ta’ghoot Aga Khan and his Fidayeen terrorists. Every body condemned Israeli terrorism in Gaza but Altaf remained silent.

MQM activists had been fully sponsored by CIA, KGB, Moosad and RAW.

The American consulate in Karachi issued hundreds of visas to America on recommendations of MQM and hence a great number of their activists moved to USA and Canada MQM had created a culture of corruption, vulgarity, cheapness, death and destruction in Pakistan.

It ridiculed great poet Iqbal and promoted rotten, foul smelling Jahilia culture which is strictly prohibited by the Prophet (PBUH)

MQM always rigged elections, killed innocent people sitting in the polling stations, took away the ballot boxes and later declared itself winner.

In the by-elections during Musharraf era, MQM killed several people in Karachi in this fashion. Even Justice Irsahd Hussain declared those elections null and void but Musharraf sent Irshad on leave, appointed another temporary Election Commissioner (Abdul Hameed Dogar) and declared terrorists as winner and members of National Assembly.

MQM fired on the people attending the funeral prayers of those killed. In the last elections MQM did not win a single seat from Karachi. It rigged the elections on guns like it did the elections of city government.

In other words MQM has no true representation from Karachi or any part of Sind.

Imagine that the Chief Justice of a country is prevented from entering and addressing lawyers to Karachi Bar Association by a terrorist organization. Following were the salient features of the May 12 Blood Bath:

Full government machinery was utilized against common people

Big newspapers advertisements were given from government funds to condemn the behavior of Chief Justice and the lawyers struggling for supremacy of Constitution, law and Justice

Threats were clearly issued and Chief Justice was asked to not to come to Karachi

Thousands of trained terrorists were brought from interior Sind and were given specific tasks e.g. manning Mazar-e-Qaid route, deploying on bridges to shoot at the passing caravans and standing at the “water facilities” ( At least 40 of them) with hidden rifles and other ammunition

Blocking the main roads with huge and heavy containers

Digging the roads so that traffic could be blocked

Using Karachi Electricity Supply Company and CDGK’s vehicles to put up MQM flags and banners

Using police to arrest thousands of political workers of other parties on fake charges.

On May 12 MQM first tried to abduct Chief Justice from Karachi Airport; failing in that they attacked lawyers and supporters of Chief Justice. The attacks and other acts of terrorism included:

Shooting innocent people from the bridges. MQM workers with automatic rifles could be easily seen. They were indiscriminately firing on the caravans killing many people and injuring others

Shooting people from the “water facilities” and other MQM camps

Attacking TV stations e.g. Aaj to force them to close their live coverage of MQM terrorism

Forcing Chief Justice to return back to Islamabad

All Pakistanis must actively participate in nation building. They must not remain silent. They should write letters to various newspapers exposing real terrorists and their crimes. They must launch cases against the terrorists and take every step to eliminate the terrorists at all levels.

For years the founder of leader of Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has spoken about financial misappropriation and irregularities of the country’s feudal and industrial rulers through alleged or real misuse of power.

But British Land Registry records now revealed that Altaf Hussain, the middle class leader of Pakistan’s third largest political party could not curb the temptation of acquiring a series of expensive and middle class properties in the British capital – one of the most expensive cities in the world.

NAWAZ SHARIF THE SECOND MOST CORRUPT

The Quaid of his own faction of Pakistan Muslim League the seond largest political party of Pakistan which is widely known as PML-N, Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif is second most corrupt politician of Pakistan after President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardai.

Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif was born 25 on December 1949 is a business tycoon who served as 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1990-July 1993 and February 1997-October 1999.

He was Chief Minister of Punjab from 1985 to 1990. A businessman and lawyer by profession, he owns Ittefaq Group, a private steel mill enterprise.

He is a wealthy businessman and a conservative politician. His first term was shortened after the Pakistan Army pressured him to resign. In 1997, he was overwhelmingly elected for a second term by wide margins. During his second term, he notably ordered Pakistan's first nuclear tests in response to India's nuclear tests.

He was ousted in an October 1999 military coup by Pervez Musharraf. He returned to Pakistan in late 2007 after eight years of forced exile. He successfully called for Musharraf's impeachment and the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. He is a potent force in Pakistani politics.

On 12 October 1999, Sharif attempted to remove Pakistan Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf and appoint Ziauddin Butt in his place. Musharraf, who was in Sri Lanka, attempted to return through a commercial airliner to return to Pakistan. Sharif ordered Sindh IG Rana Maqbool to arrest of Chief of Army Staff and Musharraf.

He ordered the Karachi Airport to be sealed off to prevent the landing of the Musharraf's airliner fearing a coup d'état. Sharif ordered the plane to land at Nawab Shah Airport. Musharraf contacted top Pakistan Army Generals who then took over the country and ousted Sharif's administration. Musharraf later assumed control of the government as Chief Executive.

The military placed him on trial for "kidnapping, attempted murder, hijacking and terrorism". The military court quickly convicted him and gave him a life sentence. Under an agreement facilitated by Saudi Arabia, Sharif was placed in exile for the next 10 years.

The exile of the Sharif family to Saudi Arabia following the pardon announcement by the government has deprived the Raiwind dwellers of their 15 assets, worth billions of rupees.

A spokesman for the government told that almost 80 per cent of the Sharifs' property had been "taken over" by the government.

According to spokesman, the 15 assets that have been taken over by the government in return for providing a safe "exit" to the Sharif family include Rs300 million in cash; industrial assets including Brother Steel Mills; Ilyas Enterprises; Hudaybia Paper Mill; Hudaybia Engineering Company; Hamza Spinning Mills; residential property including the Model Town bungalow; three houses at Mall Road Murree; property at 135 Upper Mall Lahore; a plot at Model Town Lahore; a plot at Upper Mall, Lahore; agricultural property including 10.2 kanals of land at Khanpur Sheikhupura Road Lahore; 41 acres and 7 kanals of land at Sheikhupura; 14.2 kanals of land and another 35 kanals at Bhaipharu in Chunnian and 88 kanals of land at Raiwind.

The Raiwind palace of the Sharif family, which ruled the country for almost 15 years, has however not been confiscated by the government.

Nawaz family’s total assets include 5 industrial units, 5 houses, 2 plots, agriculture properties and Rs 300 million bank deposits. The government had confiscated huge assets, properties and Rs 300 million bank deposits of the Sharif family.

Confiscated industrial assets include Brother Steel Mills, Hudabiya Paper Mills Limited, Hudabiya Engineering Company and Hamza Spinning Mills Limited. Residential properties include houses at Model Town, Lahore; 135 Upper Mall, Lahore; one plot at Model Town, Lahore; one plot at Upper Mall, Lahore; and three houses on Hall Road, Murree.

Agriculture properties include 10 kanal and two marla land at Khanpur, Sheikhupura Road, Lahore; 41 acres and seven kanal land at Watton, Sheikhupura; 14 kanal and two marla land at Bhaipheru, Chunian; 35 kanal and three marla land at Bhaipheru, Chunian; and 88 kanal land, Phubtian, Raiwind.

Following is detail of the confiscated assets of the Sharif family:

Bank deposits: Rs 300 million.

Industrial assets: 1. Brother Steel Mills; 2. Ilyas Enterprises; 3. Hudabiya Paper Mills Limited; 4. Hudabiya Engg Co; 5. Hamza Spinning Mills Ltd.

Residential properties: 1. Residential houses at Model Town Lahore; 2. 135-Upper Mall, Lahore; 3. A plot at Model Town, Lahore; 4. A plot at Upper Mall, Lahore; 5. Three houses on Hall Road, Murree.

Agricultural properties: 1. 10 kanal, 2 marla land at Khanpur, Sheikhupura Road, Lahore; 2. 41 acres, 7 kanal land at Watton, Sheikhupura; 3. 14 kanal, 2 marla land at Bhaipheru, Chunian; 4. 35 kanal, 3 marla land at Bhaipheru, Chunian; 5. 88 kanal land, Phubtian, Raiwind.

Despite having declared assets of Rs 676.8 million of the Sharif family, both the brothers filed a zero income tax and deficit wealth tax returns, last year. This very fact motivated donors to force the authorities to publish tax records of all the parliamentarians and senior bureaucrats, which is due now shortly.

The 11-member family of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif holds a gross wealth of Rs 676.8 million (declared in tax returns). However, Nawaz and Shahbaz paid no income tax or wealth tax to the national exchequer.

Following the modern tradition of large industrial houses, the family of Nawaz Sharif also owns large agricultural farms. Nawaz Sharif himself owns two pieces of land at the Raiwind Road and Mandiali (Sheikhupura), containing 212 Produce Index Units (PIUs).

According to the tax statements of June 30, 1998, total income tax paid by the 11-member Sharif family was just Rs 0.25 million. The family also paid Rs 0.55 million as wealth tax and 0.13 million as agriculture tax raising the total tax payment of the family to Rs 0.94 million. This amount is just a peanut, keeping in view their business empire that actually runs into many billions.

The tax statements declared majority of the industrial concerns in losses and the income tax was computed largely on the salary paid to the directors of the group or on the dividend paid by Chaudhry Sugar Mills. The total income tax, wealth tax and agriculture tax paid by the family, with a gross worth of Rs 676.8 million, was just Rs 0.94 million or a little above 0.1 per cent of the total declared asset value of the family.

The 11-member family includes Mian Muhammad Sharif, Mrs Shamim Akhtar, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Mrs Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, Hussain Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Mrs Nusrat Shahbaz, Hamza Shahbaz, Mian Abbas Sharif and Mrs Sabiha Abbas. Majority of the assets were in the name of elders, minors and wives of the Sharifs.

The factories declared by the Sharif family showed losses. These industrial units, as shown in the various tax returns include Chaudhry Sugar Mills, Ramzan Sugar Mills Ltd, Mehran Ramzan Textile Mills Ltd, Muhammad Baksh Textile Mills, Hamza Spinning Mills, Hudabiya Paper Mills, Hudabiya Engg (Pvt) Ltd, Hamza Board Mills, Kulsoom Textile Mills, Ittefaq Brothers (Pvt) Ltd, Ilyas Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, Brothers Steel Ltd, Ittefaq Sugar Mills, Khalid Siraj Textile Industries, Ramzan Baksh Textile Mills, Ittefaq Textile Mills, Brothers Textile Mills, Ittefaq Foundries, Khalid Siraj Industries, Barkat Textile Mills, Abdul Aziz Textile Mills, Brothers Sugar Mills and Effective (Pvt) Ltd.\

According to the documentary evidence, the deposed prime minister, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif with national tax number (NTN) has declared his income tax liability as 'nil' on June 30, 1998. His total net wealth (as declared) was Rs 2.1 million and total admissible debts were shown at Rs 6.4 million. So his net wealth, according to the tax statement (assets minus admissible debts), would go into deficit.

The income tax liability of Mrs Kulsoom Nawaz was also shown as 'nil'. However, she declared a small amount of eight thousand rupee as tax on dividend from Chaudhry Sugar Mills where she had declared to hold 4,000 shares. The net asset value of Mrs Nawaz was shown at Rs 3.98 million. However, her net wealth was computed at Rs 32 thousand after adjusting admissible loans of Rs 3.95 million. So, she paid Rs 178 only as wealth tax for the year ending June 30, 1998.

The tax return of Mian Shahbaz Sharif shows one thousand rupee tax deducted on dividend received by him from Chaudhry Sugar Mills. He had declared to have 5,000 shares of the unit. Mian Shahbaz also filed a deficit tax return of Rs 4.5 million.

KING OF CORRUPTION IN PAKISTAN

Asif Ali Zardari born on 26 July 1955 is the most corrupt person of Pakistan but unfortunately he is simultaneously 11th and current President of Pakistan and the Co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Zardari is the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who served two nonconsecutive terms as Prime Minister. When his wife was assassinated in December 2007, he became the leader of the PPP. He successfully led the PPP through general elections in 2008 and led a coalition that forced Pervez Musharraf's resignation.[5]

His political career has been mired by corruption allegations, for which he was in prison from 1990–1993 and 1996-2004. He became widely known as "Mr. 10 Percent" during the premiership of Benazir Bhutto because of his alleged role in obtaining kickbacks as an intermediary in government deals.

As President, his attempt to prevent the reinstatement of judges failed after massive protests led by Nawaz Sharif, his chief political rival. He suffered further political embarrassment for flirting with candidate for US vice president slot Sarah Palin and for going to Europe during the 2010 Pakistan floods.

Zardari's academic background remains a question. He received his primary education from Karachi Grammar School. His official biography says he graduated from Cadet College, Petaro in 1972. He went to St Patrick's High School, Karachi from 1973-74; a school clerk says he failed his final examination there.

In March 2008, a PPP spokesman said Zardari had graduated from the London School of Economics and Business Studies. Zardari's official biography says he attended Pedinton School in Britain.

His schools in Britain couldn't be located. The issue about the authenticity of his diploma is contentious because of a 2002 rule which requires candidates for parliament to hold a college degree, but the rule was overturned by Pakistan's Supreme Court in April 2008.

Zardari's initial political career was unsuccessful. In 1983, he lost an election for a district council seat in Nawabshah, a city north of Karachi where his family owned thousands of acres of farmland. He then went into real estate business and earned bad name for wide scale and high level forgeries and frauds in real estate business.

He generally stayed out of his wife's first administration during 1988 to 1990, but he and his associates became tangled in corruption cases linked to the government. He was largely blamed for the collapse of the Bhutto administration.

After the dismissal of Bhutto's government in August 1990, Benazir Bhutto and Zardari were prohibited from leaving the country by security forces, under the direction of the Pakistan Army. During the interim government between August and October, caretaker Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, a Bhutto rival, began investigations of corruption of the Bhutto administration. Jatoi accused Zardari with using his wife's political position to further his business deals by charging a 10 per cent commission to get permission for setting up any project or to receive loans. He was tagged with the nickname Mr. Ten Percent.

He was arrested on 10 October 1990 for charges relating to kidnapping and extortion. The charges alleged an extortion scheme that involved tying a supposed bomb to a British businessman's leg.

In the October 1990 elections, he was elected to the National Assembly while in jail. Bhutto and the PPP staged a walkout from the inaugural session of National Assembly in protest of Zardari's incarceration.

He posted $20,000 bail but his release was blocked by a government ordinance that removed a court's power to release suspects in terrorist court. The ordinance was later revoked and a special court acquitted him of bank fraud and conspiracy to murder political opponents.

He was freed in February 1993. In March 1994, Zardari was acquitted of bank fraud charges. All other corruption charges relating to Bhutto's first term were dropped or thrown out of the courts on account of political pressure by the largest political party of Pakistan i.e Pakistan Peoples Party.

In April 1993, he became one of the 18 cabinet ministers in the caretaker government that succeeded Nawaz Sharif's first abridged premiership. The caretaker government lasted until the July elections. After Bhutto's election, he served as Bhutto's Investment Minister, chief of the intelligence bureau, and the head of the Federal Investigation Agency.

In April 1994, Zardari refuted allegations that he was wielding unregulated influence as a spouse and acting as "de-facto Prime Minister". In March 1995, he was appointed chairman of the new Environment Protection Council.

During the beginning of the second Bhutto Administration, a Bhutto family feud between Benazir and her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, unraveled over the political future of Murtaza Bhutto.

Benazir thanked Zardari for his support. In September 1996, Murtaza and seven others died in a shootout with police in Karachi, while the city was undergoing a three-year civil war.

At Murtaza's funeral, Nusrat accused Benazir and Zardari of being responsible and vowed to pursue prosecution. Ghinwa Bhutto, Murtaza's widow, also accused Zardari of being behind his killing.

President Farooq Leghari, who would dismiss the Bhutto government seven weeks after Murtaza's death, also suspected Benazir's and Zardari's involvement. Several of Pakistan's leading newspapers alleged that Zardari wanted Murtaza out of the way because of Murtaza's activities as head of a breakaway faction of the PPP.

In November 1996, Bhutto's government was dismissed by Leghari primarily because of corruption and Murtaza's death. Zardari was arrested in Lahore while attempting to flee the country to Dubai.

A major report in January 1998 was published by The New York Times detailing Zardari's vast corruption and misuse of public funds. The report discussed Zardari's $200 million kickbacks for a $4 billion contract with French military contractor–Dassault Aviation– in a deal that fell apart only when the Bhutto government was dismissed.

It contained details on a single payment of a $10 million kickback from a gold bullion dealer in return for a monopoly on gold imports. It had information from Pakistani investigators that the Bhutto family had allegedly accrued more than $1.5 billion in illicit profits through kickbacks in virtually every sphere of government activity.

It also discussed Zardari's mid-1990s spending spree that involved millions of dollars for jewelry.

The arrangements made by the Bhutto family for their wealth relied on Western property companies, Western lawyers, and a network of Western friends. The report described how Zardari had arranged secret contracts, painstaking negotiations, and removal of resistant intermediaries.

As a result of the reports, Citibank ran into further private-banking trouble in Pakistan. Zardari's financial history was one case study in a 1999 US Senate report on various vulnerabilities in banking procedures.

In March 1997, he was elected to the Senate while in a Karachi jail. In July 1998, he was indicted for corruption in Pakistan after the Swiss government has handed over documents to Pakistani authorities relating to money laundering.

The Swiss government had also indicted him for money laundering. At the same time in a separate case, he and 18 others were also indicted for conspiracy to murder Murtaza Bhutto. After criminal prosecutions began, Citibank closed Zardari's account.

In April 1999, Bhutto and Zardari were convicted for receiving indemnities from a Swiss goods inspection company that was hired to end corruption in collection of customs duties. The couple received $8.6 million fines. Both were also sentenced five years imprisonment but Bhutto could not be extradited back to Pakistan from her self-imposed exile.

He was already jailed awaiting trial on separate charges. The evidence used against them was gathered by Swiss investigators and the Pakistani Bureau of Accountability.

In May 1999, he was hospitalized after an alleged attempted suicide. He claimed he suffered an attempted murder by police.

In August 2003, a Swiss judge charged Bhutto and Zardari for money laundering and sentenced them 6-month imprisonments and fined $50,000. In addition, they were required to return $11 million to the Pakistani government.

The conviction involved charges relating to kickbacks from two Swiss firms in exchange for customs fraud. In France, Poland, and Switzerland the couple faced allegations relating to corruption.

In November 2004, he was released on bail by court order. However, a month later he was again unexpectedly arrested for failing to show up for a hearing on a murder case in Islamabad. He was moved to house arrest in Karachi. A day later, he was released on $5,000 bail. His release, re-arrest, and then release again was regarded as a sign of growing reconciliation between Musharraf's government and the PPP. After his second release in late 2004, he left for exile overseas in Dubai.

He left to see Bhutto in Dubai and returned to Lahore in April 2005 In September 2005, he did not show up for a Rawalpindi hearing on corruption charges and the court issued an arrest warrant. His lawyers stated he could not come because he was recovering from treatment.

Following a request by the Rawalpindi court, Interpol issued a red notice in January 2006 against the couple which called on member nations to decide on the couple's extradition.

In November 2007, the dictator President of Pakistan General Prevez Musharraf installed emergency rule for six weeks, under the pretense of rising Islamist militancy, a few days following Bhutto's departure for Dubai to meet with Zardari.

Immediately after the state of emergency, Bhutto returned to Pakistan while Zardari again stayed behind in Dubai. The emergency rule was initiated right before the Supreme Court of Pakistan began to start deliberations on the legality of Musharraf's US-backed proposal — National Reconciliation Ordinance — to drop corruption charges against Bhutto and Zardari in return for a joint Bhutto-Musharraf coalition to lead Pakistan.

Bhutto and Zardari sympathized with Musharraf on his feud with the Supreme Court, but simultaneously criticized the imposition of martial law. Before the Supreme Court could issue a decision on the dismissal of corruption charges against Bhutto and Zardari, Musharraf replaced its members with his supporters.

In the midst of his exile, Zardari faced several different legal problems. In Pakistan, Musharraf gave amnesty to Zardari's alleged offenses through the National Reconciliation Ordinance drafted in October 2007.

However, the ordinance was up against mounting public pressure and an uncompromising judiciary. In addition the ordinance only dealt with charges up to 1999. This left open the possibility of investigations into alleged involvement of about $2 million in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein under the oil-for-food program discovered in October 2005.

If the ordinance was rescinded, he would have had to deal with charges relating to evading duties on an armored BMW, commissions from a Polish tractor manufacturer, and a kickback from a gold bullion dealer. In Switzerland, Bhutto and Zardari appealed the 2003 Swiss conviction which required the case to be reopened in October 2007.

In November 2007, Swiss authorities returned the frozen $60 million to him through offshore companies because of the NRO. In Spain, a criminal investigation was opened for money laundering for the oil-for-food program because of illicit profits through Spanish firms.

In Britain, he was fighting a civil case against the Pakistani government for the profits of Surrey Palace through a liquidation sale. He successfully used his medical diagnosis to postpone a verdict on his British trial.

In exile, he shifted between homes in New York, London, and Dubai where his three children lived.

On the night of 27 December 2007, he returned to Pakistan following Bhutto's assassination.

Zardari prevented Bhutto's autopsy in accordance with Islamic principles. He and his children attended her funeral which was held the next day. He rebuffed government allegations that the assassination was sponsored by Al-Qaida.

In Bhutto's political will, she declared Zardari as her successor for party leadership. However, his son Bilawal became Chairman of the PPP because Zardari favored Bilawal to represent Bhutto's legacy in part to avoid division within the party due to his own unpopularity. He would act as co-chairman of the PPP for at least three years until Bilawal completed his studies overseas.

The PPP and PML-N won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the February elections. After the elections, he and Sharif agreed to work together to form a coalition government ending American hopes of a power-sharing deal between him and Musharraf.

On 18 August, Musharraf resigned in order to avoid impeachment. Although Zardari favored granting Musharraf immunity from prosecution, the coalition could not reach a united decision. The coalition also could not reach a united stance on the future of the judiciary.

Elections were held within three weeks after the removal of Musharraf. He was elected President on 6 September 2008.

He is the second richest man in Pakistan with an estimated net worth of US$1.8 billion. He amassed great wealth while his wife was Prime Minister. In 2007, he received $60 million in his Swiss bank account through offshore companies under his name.

He was reported to have estates in Surrey, West End of London, Normandy, Manhattan, and Dubai. He owns a 16th century chateau in Normandy. In Britain, he used a common legal device — the purchase of property through nominees with no family link to the Bhuttos.

His Lahore home is referred to as Bilawal House II. His residence in Islamabad is called Zardari House.

He bought a 355-acre 20-bedroom luxury estate in Rockwood, Surrey in 1995 through a chain of firms, trusts, and offshore companies in 1994. The country home's refurbishments abruptly ended in October 1996, shortly before the end of Benazir Bhutto's second term.

He initially denied for eight years that he owned the property and no-one paid the bills for his work on the unoccupied mansion. Creditors forced a liquidation sale in 2004 and the Pakistani government claimed proceeds because the home was bought with money through corruption.

However, he stepped in to claim that he actually was the beneficial owner. As of November 2008, the proceeds were in a liquidator bank account while a civil case continues.

It includes two farms, lodgings, staff accommodation, and a basement under the imitation of a local pub. The front entrance to the house is covered in ivy and holly. There is a large parking area in front.

The master bedroom ceiling is created to achieve an evening sky with stars in it. The manor has nine bedrooms and an indoor swimming pool. He had sent large shipments from Karachi in the 1990s for the refurbishment of Surrey Place.

He has faced allegations from various people, including the daughter of Laila Shahzada, for acquiring stolen art to decorate the place. He earlier had plans for a helipad, nine-hole golf course, and a polo pony paddock to be installed on the property.

Before marrying Benazir Bhutto there he had no property or bank balance accept a medium class cinema in Hyderabad that too was on his father’s name.