Swot Analysis

SWOT ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN

MR.ASIF ALI ZARDARI

(By Wajid Ali, MBA 1st Semester)

Asif Ali Zardari (born 26 July 1955) is the 14th and current President of Pakistan and the Co-Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Zardari is the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who twice served as Prime Minister of Pakistan. When his wife was assassinated in December 2007, he became the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party. He is one of the richest men in Pakistan with an estimated net worth of US$1.8 billion (2005).

It is easy to feel admiration and not a little respect for President Asif Zardari. He rarely allows himself to be interviewed by his own media because journalism on the subcontinent is quite poor. And so, while there is much reported about him, and rightly, his defense is rarely taken up. Zardari’s official website says that after school he “further pursued his education in London where he studied Business”. This is the sub-continental code for “attended some sort of institution but couldn’t get a degree”, so clearly he didn’t pursue it well. There’s no shame in this and it doesn’t preclude a successful career in our politics.

Zardari may not have academic skills or interests, but he is first rate at understanding problems. He has been in power without a parliamentary majority for his party. But he has been skilful at playing with a poor hand. He is like one of the later Mughals who had to use tact and guile rather than force, which was unavailable to them. Like those hapless royals, he heads a state with expenses far in excess of revenue and a military not entirely in his control. Even so, he has weathered more crises than any Pakistani leader: memo-gate, NRO, Raymond Davis, judges’ restoration, CIA, drone strikes, energy shortage, and corruption in this cabinet, an aggressive Supreme Court and an aggressive media. And he has done this without losing his cool or exhibiting signs of distress. With great skill, he has kept the Pakistan Peoples’ Party...