But it remains unclear when the leader will return to his country after receiving treatment for a 'mini-stroke'
Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, will be discharged from hospital in Dubai on Thursday, but it remains unclear when he will return to Pakistan, aides have said.
The state of the Pakistani's leader's health has been the subject of intense speculation since he was flown out of the country on Tuesday last week after apparently suffering a "mini-stroke". He has a history of heart trouble.
His children are based in Dubai, though his son and political heir-apparent, 23-year-old Bilawal, flew into Pakistan to stand in for his father as head of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party when his father became unwell.
The president, ill since early December, apparently collapsed in the presidency on Tuesday last week and was flown to Dubai that evening. Alarm over his health was heightened by a press leak in Washington saying he had been "incoherent" during a telephone call with the US president, Barack Obama, on 4 December.
Zardari's health problems have deepened the country's political crisis, amid speculation that he is seriously ill or that he may not return. There have also been rumours that Zardari has suffered a mental breakdown.
The verdict from the doctors at the American Hospital in Dubai was released publicly, presumably in a bid to end the speculation. However, until Zardari is back in the country speculation is likely to continue that he has fled political troubles at home.
The letter, signed by a doctor, Khaldoun Taha, and dated 13 December, says Zardari was admitted to hospital "with a chief complaint of left-arm numbness and twitching with a transient episode of loss of consciousness that lasted for few seconds".
Tests at the hospital had found that "all investigations were within normal range", and he was advised to now rest at home and continue his regular heart medications, the letter said.
On 19 December, the supreme court will take up an explosive case in which Zardari's close confidante, Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former US ambassador, is accused of being behind a "treacherous" offer made to Washington to rein in Pakistan's military in return for US support for the government in Islamabad. Some believe the treason accusations will reach all the way up to the president.
The offer was delivered in an anonymous memo by a Pakistani-American businessman, Mansoor Ijaz, to the then top US military official in May, but it only became public knowledge in October. The former Washington ambassador, who was sacked over the issue, denies having any role in crafting the message, but Ijaz claims he was acting on Haqqani's instructions.
Islamabad remains abuzz with talk that the government will be dismissed, possibly by the courts acting under pressure from the powerful military, which has long wanted to oust Zardari.
Some saw the president's hospitalisation as a possible prelude to his going into exile. The controversy over the memo gives the military new grounds to be suspicious of Zardari.
Zardari is unpopular and controversial within Pakistan, never having lived down a reputation for corruption while his four-year-old government has stumbled from crisis to crisis.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/14/pakistan-president-zardari-dubai-hospital
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