Zardari went to Dubai hospital because of threats: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that threats to his life forced president Asif Ali Zardari to go to a Dubai hospital for treatment one week ago.

Speaking in the Senate, the Prime Minister said that the government and the president's family convinced Zardari to go to Dubai for the treatment because there was a risk he would be attacked if he had treatment in a local hospital.

"He was ill, he feared life threats in Pakistan hospitals, that was the reason he did not want to go to any hospital of Pakistan," the prime minister said in his address in the Senate.

Zardari's spokesman earlier said that the president will be discharged from the hospital on Thursday after spending more than a week there but will remain in the Gulf emirate to rest.