{"id":62982,"date":"2024-04-01T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/01\/asif-ali-zardari-pakistan-president-benazir-bhutto"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:31:50","slug":"villain-to-some-hero-to-others-asif-ali-zardari-returns-as-pakistan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62982","title":{"rendered":"Villain to some, hero to others: Asif Ali Zardari returns as Pakistan president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few have been such a constant, and often controversial, presence in Pakistani politics as widower of Benazir Bhutto<\/p>\n<p>Last month, as the slogans and cries of \u201c<em>Ek Zardari sab pe bhari<\/em><em>\u201d <\/em>(One Zardari, outweighs all) rang out across the presidential palace, Asif Ali Zardari \u2013 with his signature grin \u2013 took his oath to become Pakistan\u2019s president for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Few figures have been such a constant, and often controversial, presence in Pakistani politics over the years as Zardari, a man who has spent more years in a jail cell than in political office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/01\/asif-ali-zardari-pakistan-president-benazir-bhutto\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few have been such a constant, and often controversial, presence in Pakistani politics as widower of Benazir BhuttoLast month, as the slogans and cries of \u201cEk Zardari sab pe bhari\u201d (One Zardari, outweighs all) rang out across the presidential palace, A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62983,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62982\/revisions\/62983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}