Working Experience [INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS] :

1966: Economic Affairs Officer

1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD

1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform

1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings

1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting

1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting

1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna

Working Experience [Politics]:

1988-1990: Husband of the Prime Minister

1993–1996: Minister of Environment during his wife's second term as the Prime Minister

Un till 1999: Senator

30 December 2007: Appointed himself as the co-chairman of the PPP, along with his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

September 9, 2008: Zardari was elected president of Pakistan . Sworn in by Abdul Hameed Dogar, whose position as the Chiefe Justice of Pakistan remains a contested issue by an overwhelming majority of the Pakistani legal fraternity.

Working Experience [Government Positions]:

1971-72: Economic advisor, mini stry of foreign trade

1972-76: Chief economic advisor, mini stry of finance

1976-80: - Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India;

- Alternate governor for India , Board of governors , Asian Development Bank;

- Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD

- November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, mini stry of finance (Department of economic affairs);

- Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission ; Member,finance, Space Commission

April 1980 - September 15, 1982: Member-secretary, Planning Commission

1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee

September 16, 1982 - January 14 , 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India..

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of governors, International Monetary Fund

1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister

1985: President, Indian Economic Association

January 15 , 1985 - July 31, 1987: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990: Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva

December 10 , 1990 - March 14, 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs

March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991: Chairman, UGC

June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996: Union finance mini ster

October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket

June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the mini stry of finance

August 1, 1996 - December 4 , 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce

March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance

August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules

Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member,

executive committee, Indian parliamentary group

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

2004: Prime Minister of India

Working Experience [Other]:

Other experience of Mr Zardari includes his widely believed but not proven involvement in

- Several murders - most famously of his brother in law, possibly his wife

- Wrapping a bomb to the leg of a famous UK businessman to ask for money

- Embezzlement & looting of Billions of Pakistan's wealth

BOOKS:

India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth -Clarendon Press, Oxford University , 1964;

also published a large number of articles in various economic journals .

BOOKS:

None on record

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Adam Smith Prize , University of Cambridge, 1956

Padma Vibhushan , 1987

Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;

Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia , 1993 and 1994

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Marrying the then future and now ex (RIP) Prime Minister of Pakistan

Only serving politician to have spent 10 years in Jail

Told the US VP Candidate that she is "gorgeous" and said : "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you". When the photographers asked the two to keep shaking hands, he replied : " If he insists, I might hug you". This was one day after the President delivered an emotional speech at the UN in new York waiving a photograph of his deceased wife only months after the murder of his wife.