New Delhi: Fearing what he believed was an imminent coup d’état by his Generals, a dangerously-ill President Asif Ali Zardari armed himself with a loaded gun as he boarded a medical evacuation flight, his one-time spokesperson and senior Pakistani politician Farhatullah Babar has revealed in his memoir The Zardari Presidency (2008-2013): Now It Must Be Told, published last month.

Zardari also insisted on being accompanied by his former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, in defiance of Supreme Court orders barring the diplomat from leaving the country.

Babar’s memoir reveals that President Zardari was fearful for his life, in the wake of revelations that Haqqani had lobbied the US to back sweeping political changes designed to end the Pakistan Army’s role in political dec

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