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Who is the Prime Minister of Pakistan?
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- Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali
- Shaukat Aziz
- Chaudhury Shujat Hussain
- Khurshid Mohammed Kasuri
- None of these
Correct Option: E
(Asif Ali Zardari) is the 11th and current President of Pakistan. He is co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who served two nonconsecutive terms as Prime Minister. A Sindhi from a landowning tribe of Baloch origin, Zardari rose to prominence after his marriage to Bhutto in 1987. Between 1993 and 1996, he held various cabinet positions in the second Bhutto administration. He was arrested on charges of corruption in late 1996, following the collapse of the Bhutto government. Although incarcerated, he nominally served in Parliament after being elected to the National Assembly in 1990 and Senate in 1997. He was released from jail in 2004. He subsequently went into self-exile in Dubai, but returned in December 2007 after Bhutto’s assassination. As the Co-Chairman of the PPP, he led his party to victory in the 2008 general elections. He spearheaded a coalition that forced Musharraf to resign and was elected President on 6 September, 2008. Note : Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician who is 20th and current Prime Minister of Pakistan, in office since June 2013. He has previously also served as the Prime Minister from 1990 to 1993 and from 1997 to 1999.