Hakim Ali Zardari

He married twice—Bilquis Sultana (died November 2002) and Zareen Ara (died 22 June 2022)—and had four children—Asif Ali Zardari, Fouzia Zardari, Azra Peechoho and Faryal Talpur. He also had an adopted son Owais Muzaffar.

Hakim Ali Zardari was admitted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in March following multiple organ failure. He died in the hospital on 24 May 2011 at age 80.

On 24 January 2007, Sindh High Court overturned his conviction made by the accountability bureau.

He was also convicted in similar case in Lahore for making shady transactions with various organisations for establishing a tourist village at Rawalpindi National Park through Zardari Group. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and asked to pay a fine of 20 million rupees but this was also overturned by Lahore High Court in 2002.

In 1970, he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party as a founding member. He also got elected head of the Zardari tribe in 1970.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1970, 1988, and 1993.

Zardari started his political career in 1965 when he was elected member of the Nawabshah District Council and later was elected as the Mayor of District Nawabshah. He supported Fatima Jinnah in the 1965 presidential elections against Ayub Khan.

Hakim Ali Zardari (9 December 1930 – 24 May 2011), Urdu: حاکم علی زرداری) was a Pakistani politician who served as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan from 1972 to 1977 and again from 1988 to 1990 and then again from 1993 to 1996.

He was born on 9 December 1930 in the village of Fatohal Zardari to Mohammad Hussain Zardari. His father's family were from the Zardari tribe of Baluchistan and was recruited by the British to be zamindars in Sindh. His mother was originally from Iraq. He received his initial education from mosque school and completed his matriculation from DC High School in Nawabshah.