President Zardari back home

Updated at: 1113 PST,  Tuesday, August 10, 2010  KARACHI: The much-awaited President Asif Ali Zardari has arrived back home after completing a much-criticized foreign trip on Tuesday morning, Geo News reported. He may review the conditions in flood-stricken areas soon, officials hoped. Meanwhile, president sopped over Syria while returning from London on Monday. The stopover may have been made for superstitious reasons, as the Middle Eastern country is known for the holy places it houses. However, media managers in the presidency said he had met Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, but did not visit any of the holy places in the country, which was believed to be the main objective of the stopover. “The president landed at the Bassel Al Assad International Airport for a technical stopover on his way back home from the United Kingdom,” presidential spokesman Sohail Ahmed said. How a technical stopover resulted in a presidential meeting remained unexplained. Syria is visited by devoted Muslims for its many shrines. The famous shrine of Hazrat Bibi Zainab in Damascus, known as Zainabia, is visited by hundreds of thousands of people. President Zardari arrived at Karachi Airport from Damascus on Tuesday morning and will leave for Islamabad sometime afternoon. Officials said it is hoped that President visits flood-ridden areas to review the fragile conditions inflicted by worst ever floods.