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Summary President Zardari's flight PK 01 has taken off from Dubai airport for Pakistan.
President will land at Karachi airport where special guards of the president would receive him. The guards have already reached PAF Faisal through a separate plane.The President is accompanied by his daughter Asifa.An earlier report said that the President would arrive at Karachi airport around 1pm, and will stay in Karachi for now.Sources earlier told Dunya News that President Zardari was expected to return to Pakistan tonight. Dunya News took lead in airing this news first of all.Sources said the doctors have given permission to the President to travel back to the country.PM Syed Youaf Raza Gilani earlier said that President Zardari could return sooner than expected in order to quell the rumours taking rounds in the country.The PM had also negated any possibility of martial law in the country. “When President Zardari comes back, all rumours would die. The president may return…..before December 27,” the PM had said.Sources said that President Zardari would be aboard a flight to Pakistan tonight in order to put an end to rumours about the memo-gate scandal.President Zardari had left for Dubai unannounced. Later, his spokesman had announced that the President underwent medical checkup at a hospital there.
