Muhammad Ijaz, President Asif Ali Zardari’s renowned pir, on Monday claimed that he had told the president that he could use his magical powers to help Zardari stay in the Presidency for more time, but the president had refused his offer.
“President Zardari does not want to stay in the Presidency anymore,” Pir Ijaz said at a dinner hosted in the honour of senior journalists at the Presidency.
Pir Ejaz said he had been with Zardari since a long time and would stay with him wherever he would go.
Asked that he had earlier claimed that President Zardari would stay in office for at least another year-and-a-half but now he was about to leave, Ijaz said, “I had asked my friend that I could do something if he wanted to stay in the Presidency for more time, but he does not want to stay there anymore”.
He said Zardari’s enemies had played every possible trick to remove him from office but they had remained unsuccessful as “I had promised Zardari that I will protect him”.
“I had also promised my friend that I’d keep him in the Presidency for five years and I have fulfilled that promise.”
To a question, he said he had met Zardari for the first time in Attock in 2002 and had predicted then that he would soon be “promoted” and would stay in the country’s “biggest house”.
He also claimed that when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was in Attock Jail, he had met with Nawaz’ father thrice there and had predicted that his son would definitely be released.