Asif Zardari to bag 500 votes, says Mukhtar

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party claims that its candidate Asif Ali Zardari would bag nearly 500 out of total around 700 electoral college votes and win presidential election.

While talking to the journalists at an Iftar dinner at his residence, Federal Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar denied the impression that there was rift within the 'establishment' over the election of Zardari as President. "It was only the anti-PPP and the anti-Zardari propaganda motivated by the vested interests even in the media," he maintained.

According to the Minister, the present leadership of PPP-P has all the guts and political acumen to successfully steer the country out of current political, economic, social and constitutional problems. He was, however, unable to draw outline of his party's concrete steps that would be taken to steer the country out of the current, crises once Zardari is elected as President.

While responding to a question, he informed that the PPP's presidential candidate had a clear majority against his competitors and on 6th September he would be elected as constitutional President of Pakistan. Zardari enjoys support by all the mainstream political parties of the country and in this context PML-N is also reviewing its decision to support Asif Ali Zardari as president of Pakistan, he added.