| The ISI might say you have other plans... |
"No one has asked me yet," Zardari said. "I don't think there is such an innocent in Pakistan who will demand my resignation."
| But there are a lot of guilty ones who might, and they might not just 'ask'... |
News of the memo first surfaced in October when Mansoor Ijaz, a US businessman of Pakistani origin, wrote a column in the Financial Times claiming Pakistan's former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, crafted the memo and asked him to send it. Ijaz also claimed the memo had Zardari's support. Both Haqqani and Zardari's government have denied the allegations, but the envoy resigned in the wake of the scandal.
Pakistan's supreme court
| Who to a man hate Zardari... |
The Pakistan Army, which has denied it ever intended to carry out a coup, was outraged by the memo and supports the Supreme Court investigation.
Talk of Zardari's possible resignation took on momentum when he suddenly left Pakistan for a Dubai hospital in early December where he was treated for as yet unspecified reasons. One of his close associates has said he had suffered a "mini-stroke."
| Or a mini-wish not to die... |
In Saturday's interview, Zardari was asked if leaving again was an option for him, to avoid humiliation or even an arrest by the army. "Why should it be?" he responded.