Pakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardari has moved an application in a court seeking adequate security because of threat to his life from dreaded militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Islamabad, Oct 3/Nationalturk – In an unprecedented move, Pakistan’s former president and co-chairman of opposition party Peoples Political Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari has moved an application in a court seeking adequate security because of threat to his life from dreaded militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Sources said Zardari filed an application in Sindh High Court requesting upgradation in his security. “He has said in his application that he fears that his life is under threat from the Taliban militants”.
“My wife Benazir Bhutto was murdered and I fear I too may be assassinated,” he said in his application.
On September 8, Zardari had stepped down as president of Pakistan after completing his five-years term in the office. He earned the distinction of being the only civilian president in Pakistan’s history to complete a full term in office and hand over charge to another civilian president through the ballot box.
Sources said the court has admitted his application and made Chief Secretary of Sindh province, paramilitary force Rangers and Pakistan government as respondents to the petition.
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“The militants have threatened to target ‘secular politicians of Pakistan’ and Zardari figures in that hit-list,” Pakistani security officials have said.
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