Karachi: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said he will contest for a National Assembly seat from his native town Nawabshah in the upcoming general elections, making his return to the electoral and parliamentary politics after a gap of 24 years.
The 62-year-old leader made the announcement during an Iftar party hosted by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah at the Chief Minister's House on Saturday evening.
He has been elected as Member of National Assembly from Karachi's area of Lyari in 1990, and from Nawabshah in 1993.
Zardari, the widower of former PM Benazir Bhutto, said he could have chosen Lyari as his electoral constituency but later decided in favour of the constituency from his native town. He also predicted that no party will hold the majority in the next assembly.
Zardari served as the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.
Pakistan will hold general elections on July 25, offering the prospect of what would be only the second ever democratic transfer of power in the nuclear-armed country.
Turmoil continues to rock the country after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court last July on corruption charges and later barred from politics for life.
Sharif was the 15th prime minister in Pakistan's seven-decade history — roughly half of it under military rule — to be removed before completing a full term.
After Sharif was ousted from power, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party (PML-N) took over the premiership.
(With PTI inputs)
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