Asif Ali Zardari, 56, travelled from Islamabad to Dubai on Tuesday setting off a slew of unsubstantiated claims that he was to step down from the position he has held since 2008.
He has been under intense pressure since Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington resigned last month amid allegations that the president himself was the architect of a plot to replace senior military figures.
Mustafa Khokhar, a presidential adviser on human rights, told the AFP news agency: “He had a minor heart attack on Tuesday. He flew to Dubai where he had an angioplasty. . .