Pakistan

Zardari to visit UK to meet Cameron

President Asif Ali Zardari will undertake a tour of the United Kingdom from August 3 to 8 to meet Cameron.

Express July 31, 2010

Asif Zaradri. PHOTO: EXPRESS

President Asif Ali Zardari will undertake a tour of the United Kingdom from August 3 to 8 to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron.

A press release issued by Pakistan High Commission denied that the President’s visit to the UK has been cancelled.

The press release said Zardari would meet David Cameroon on August 6 at the Prime Minister’s country residence on the outskirts of London.

President Zardari will also meet newly elected members of the British Parliament of Pakistani origin.

President Zardari will also address the Pakistani community at Birmingham's International Conference Centre.

COMMENTS (20)

Z | 14 years ago | Reply Well said Alina!!!

Alina | 14 years ago | Reply why do we all lament about our saddar sahab now? we elected him didn't we?

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Ben | 14 years ago | Reply Sorry, as a matter of fact, it is not taking over the reign of family property. That he already has taken over. It is his coronation on elevation from crown prince to the position of king of Pakistan. The best place for the purpose is not "poor, dirty and dusty" Pakistan, it is Britain.

Ben | 14 years ago | Reply I think public reaction on what Cameron said was misplaced as he has not said anything which has not been said before by so many other world leaders. His visit to India was in fact to save British corporate giant, Vodafone, from rage of Indian revenue officials and bail it out of tax liability of billions of dollars. This is how countries and their leaders protect their commercial interests. Read more at: link text And why should the President cancel his UK trip? He has to witness his son taking reigns of family business.

mussarat ahmedzeb swat | 14 years ago | Reply Heard the news today of our beloved president going to england.President you make me feel proud by not canceling ur trip show the world that we are a rich nation and we do not need AID, a few drops of rain cannot flood our nation its just the new technology of the camera.

arif hussain | 14 years ago | Reply i think the president[ours] should hav the decency and selfrespect to NOT visit the UK and he shuld send a clear message illustrating the annoyance felt by the pakistani nation at the british pm's prepostorous remarks. Our nation needs someone to champion and support our soveriegnty and rights in the international community. How can it be tolerated that all our sacrifices for their bloody war go unnoticed...We need to send them a strong message.

Tariq Ajmal | 14 years ago | Reply @President Zardari plzzzzzz cancel ur england visit and visited to the victum area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and south punjab and help them bcaz they need ur help and if u will not cancel the visit its mean u r not pakistani and u only love ur presented chair not a single pakistani and f u cancel the visit u vl b consider a true lover of pakistan

wtf | 14 years ago | Reply Pakistan is becoming a cheap country day by day

Malik Tariq Ali | 14 years ago | Reply Over 900 Pakistanis have already perished in the floods that have wrecked untold miseries in Kyber Pakhtunkwa alone. The flood has now entered Punjab and will shortly hit Sindh. On top of it PM Cameron has insulted Pakistan and blamed us for exporting terrorism. It is Pakistan army which has lost over 2700 soldiers and almost 100,000 civilians have lost their lives in this war against terrorism. President Zardari unlike the head of any respectable sovereign state will visit UK, inspite of natural disasters at home and the insults to our country. Our main political leaders, former tin pot dictators, corrupt bureaucrats, equally corrupt generals have a lot of stakes in UK, USA, Spain, Canada, Dubai etc. How can you expect Mr Zardari, Nawaz, Altaf, Afsandyar etc not to be cowed down by their own weaknesses.

Sajjad Ashraf | 14 years ago | Reply Under the constitution of Pakistan the Prime Minister is the Chief Executive of the country. Then how come the President still continues to be responsible for the foreign affairs. The parliamentrary system makes him a figure head and hia visits should few and far between and only meant for ceremonial purposes.

Asim Kaleem | 14 years ago | Reply This is indeed the test of Zardari as his decision on this matter will show that how much he cares for the country's respect .......

Zahid | 14 years ago | Reply Please don't visit....Cancel it... This gentleman has insulted our motherland.

shazia ahmad | 14 years ago | Reply president camron should come to pakistan.. and i wish the warm and heartidly welcome from pakistani nation.. want t show our culture as wel... that he could n0ot forget each single moment spend in pakistan.. is that possible??????

Samreen | 14 years ago | Reply @sadaf.... yeah i have just read all this.... its really shameful to spend too much n on the other hand our country's disastrous condition is at its peak! :(

SadafFayyaz | 14 years ago | Reply I wanted to share sometning about this trip today,,,but thats written in urdu,,,leme translate it: """President Zardari and his entourage will stay at the five-star luxury hotel Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill, located in the Marylebone area, adjacent to Park Lane, and minutes walk from Hyde Park, Marble Arch and Buckingham Palace. nearly half of the ninth exclusive floor called Regency Club Level, which has 18 suites and 10 executive type luxury rooms, has been booked and blocked. President Zardari will stay in one of the booked the Royal Suites, the most expensive luxury suites which cost around £7,000 per night for each room. He follows the footsteps of former president Pervez Musharraf who was addicted to staying in his nearby favourite Dorchester Hotel, which is even more expensive than the Churchill Hotel. The services bill or the catering (breakfasts, lunches and dinners) is not included in the price. The catering for this trip has been ordered from an Asian restaurant at the cost of around £18 per pack for the delegation members and the high commission members, but the special meals for the president and a selected few will be arranged by the hotel itself. Around 10-12 luxury cars have been hired at the cost of £400 per vehicle and they will be engaged with the delegation for the entire duration of the presidential visit. When the president goes to address the Birmingham rally, it is almost certain that he will fly to Birmingham on a chartered plane. The last time he took the private plane to meet his daughters in Cardiff from Farnborough, it cost the Pakistani nation £16,000 for the round trip. Sources say Zardari will not travel through road to Birmingham, although it is only about a 100 miles from London. As revealed earlier, the conference hall at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham will cost not less than £40,000 according to a conservative estimate.""" clap,,, we are a poor nation,,,, arent we?

M.Atif | 14 years ago | Reply Who care the dignity of Pakistan; we are saying that our president should not visit UK because of derogatory remarks by Mr. Cameroon I believe this even he does it in Pakistan our so called leader will not have mind it. I will request to our nation please wake up

Huma Iqbal | 14 years ago | Reply If anything, I fail to understand the need for Mr President to leave the country and go to visit ( read The visit!) to London. I mean so much for the crisis management. While his countrymen, whose safety happen to be his priority, are stranded in water and flood, the dear president embarks on a wonderful, fun-filled, luxurious trip abroad. if he can't help us, can he not at least be here to support? But then isn't that asking for too much from his too little a leadership?

peacelover | 14 years ago | Reply given that cameron has pointedly blamed pakistan and that too while on a visit to india, asif would commit an act of betrayal to the honor and dignity of pakistan by going to england. cameron must be censured for his loud and badmouthing against pakistan. do the people and rulers of pakistan realize that we are the biggest victim of both external and internal terrorism. our armed forces and other agencies have given enormous sacrifices defending the homeland and here is an english twit telling us that we are the aggressors. has cameron forgotten what england has been doing over the last two centuries in afghanistan? england, cameron's homeland, is the biggest exporter of terrorism in the world - mixed with opium smuggling. mr cameron, get lost. mr asif, stay home, otherwise you'll be lost. SALUTE TO ISI FOR CANCELLING THE TRIP TO ENGLAND IN PROTEST. PAKISTAN ZINZABAD PAINDABAD.

Anjum Nawaz | 14 years ago | Reply President Asif Zardari must cancel his visit after foolish remarks of the David Cameroon...

Qasim | 14 years ago | Reply Atleast the ISI leadership had the dignity to do the right thing and cancel their trip to Britain after their rebuke to Pakistan. Who cares about democracy or dictatorship, these two concepts aren't mutually exclusive, throughout Pakistan's history we've had dictators who came in through rigged democratic elections, and they are often worse than the dictators who come in through the Army.

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