ISLAMABAD — Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was discharged from a Dubai hospital late Wednesday and will continue to recuperate at his home in the Persian Gulf city, his office said, adding that no decision had been made on when he would return to Pakistan.
Zardari’s sudden departure for the United Arab Emirates last week, at a time when he was under intense political pressure, sparked rumors that he was fleeing the country or being forced out by Pakistan’s powerful military.
Doctors did not disclose Zardari’s diagnosis, but a statement from the American Hospital in Dubai, forwarded to the media by the president’s office, said he had experienced “left arm numbness and twitching with a transient episode of loss of consciousness that lasted for a few seconds.”
Denver Post wire services
