benazir’s husband
Asif Ali Zardari is the husband of Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister of Pakistan. When he became the President in the year 2008, there was a lot of news in the Pakistani media with the headline ‘Mr. Ten percent became the new President of the country’. Zardari is considered the most corrupt politician of Pakistan. In December 2019, he did not come out of jail for the first time, but went to jail several times and then came out on bail. Zardari has spent nearly 12 years in prison. In the year 1990, he went to jail for the first time for three years and then again in the year 1996. At that time he was in prison for 8 years. He had come out of jail even before becoming the President.
So that’s why Mr. 10%
In 1987, Zardari married Benazir Bhutto. Till that time very few people knew Zardari, who hailed from the southern Sindh province. But gradually he made a strong place for himself in the government. The finance and environment ministries soon followed Zardari. From here, Zardari went on to become Mr. 10 percent. Whoever wanted to do business with the Bhutto government, Zardari would have fixed 10 per cent commission for himself before that.
In 2010, Zardari went on a tour of Britain and here he met the then British Prime Minister David Cameron. After this meeting, many jokes were made. One of these jokes was that Cameron must count his fingers after shaking hands with Zardari. After this, in the year 2020, Omar Ayub, who was the Petroleum Minister of Pakistan, addressed Zardari in the house as ‘Mr 10 percent’, then there was a ruckus.
how did you get this name
It is said that Zardari lived outside the administration of his wife but along with his close friends, he was involved in corruption. Zardari is also sometimes said to be responsible for the fall of the Bhutto administration. When Bhutto’s government fell in 1990, both Zardari and Benazir were barred from leaving the country. Both were living under the protection of the Pakistan Army. When the interim government was formed in the country in August and October 1990, Ghulam Mustafat Jatoi became the PM.
He was Bhutto’s rival and ordered an inquiry into corruption cases in the previous government. Jatoi accused Zardari of taking advantage of his wife’s political dominance. He said that Zardari used to charge 10 per cent commission for any project or loan approval. Many Pakistani citizens also suspect that Zardari got Benazir’s brother Murtaza Bhutto murdered in 1996. Murtaza was shot in broad daylight on the road.