Pakistan President Zardari Tries Peace Through Concession
March 23rd, 2009
Without solid international or political cover and needing to move back into a more populist position, Pakistani President Zardari reached out to former Prime Minister Sharif and called for “tolerance, mutual accomodation and respect for dissent ….” His efforts even went so far as the government asking the Supreme Court to lift the ban on the Sharif brothers holding political office.
