President Zardari reasserts grip on presidency: report

WASHINGTON: President Asif Ali Zardari, fighting to keep his job amid pressure from opponents in the media, the courts, the Parliament and the military, appears to have reasserted his grip on the presidency for the time being, according to analytical report published in US daily ‘ Washington Post’. According to report, Zardari’’s government remains caught between pressure to support Washington in the war against insurgents in Afghanistan and the need to improve its tenuous relations with the army, which is focused on fighting domestic Taliban extremists and mistrusts the Obama administration’’s friendship with India, Pakistan’’s neighbor and arch rival. In the past week, Pakistan’’s embattled president has had to relinquish a number of executive powers to Gillani to placate his adversaries.