London, Dec 10 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is 'fine' and will return home soon, nearly a week after he was rushed to a Dubai hospital for emergency medical treatment.
"I'm fine and will return soon," Zardari told a private TV channel.
"I did not want to leave. My children and friends and the prime minister insisted that I go for a checkup," The News quoted Zardari, as saying.
Zardari walked in front of doctors about 15 minutes on Friday. ven as Indian media reported that Zardari may be flown to Britain for further treatment, Pakistan Government sources denied such speculations yesterday saying that he will remain under medical observation in Dubai for few weeks before returning home.
"It can take two days or even more than two weeks, it all depends on what doctors advise him. He may leave the hospital and rest in his house under observation of doctors, but we want him to stay here because he needs rest," one of Zardari's close aides at the hospital said.
Zardari is reportedly suffering from heart ailment and his admittance to the hospital sparked fevered speculation in Western and Pakistani media that he might be on his way out.
Zardari's name has been brought up in the Memo Gate scandal, with a Pakistani-American businessman claiming that the former had prior knowledge about the US raid that killed former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
If he remains in office until his five years mandate ends in 2013, and polls are held, it would be the first democratic transition of power in Pakistan. (ANI)
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