The News | By Azim M. Mian | 14 June 2010

Website declares Zardari US citizen

Update: Website changes Zardari’s nationality
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NEW YORK: A well-known US website, which contains the record of 36,000 prominent figures of the world, has declared President Asif Ali Zardari a US citizen, and said that he suffers from depression and is a diabetes patient.

The revelation of ‘Noteable Names Database’, the US website established in 2002, may create further problems for President Zardari and his comrades. The website says it collects such information about famous personalities through general sources, besides its own intelligence and other sources that are not known to the common man.

If the information given on the website is correct, President Zardari may have to face a court challenge for contesting the presidential election by concealing his foreign nationality, taking oath as the president of Pakistan in the presence of the US oath and other reasons. A US nationality holder takes oath to raise weapons against the anti-American elements and promises to perform his duty, keeping US oath and interests supreme to all other loyalties and oaths. While the president of Pakistan takes oath to abide by the Constitution and interests of Pakistan.

The website has declared Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, Singer Nusrat Fateha Ali Khan, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Ziaul Haq and Ayub Khan holders of Pakistani nationality.

Source: The News