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President Asif Ali Zardari held meetings with different delegations in Karachi. A delegation of Awami National Party (ANP) called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal House. The ANP delegation included senior leader Amin Khatak, who demanded for divide of political administration in Karachi. President Zardari said he was not recognized as political prisoner during the eight long years spent in detention but when Mian Nawaz Sharif was detained he was immediately called a political prisoner.Khatak said that President Zardari has also promised to issue orders to NADRA for the issue of computerized national identity cards to dislocated persons from Malakand and Swat. Khatak said that President has also assured to look into the matter of constituencies. He said that President Asif Zardari pointed out that a separate anti-encroachment force has been created to vacate state land from land mafia.The members of governing bodies of Karachi Press Club (KPC) and senior journalists also held a meeting with President Zardari at Bilawal House. They discussed matters relating to journalist community, including development work in journalists housing society at Hawksbay, ownership issue of Karachi Press Club building, creation of journalists foundation, Wage Board Award and long pending petitions of employees against newspaper owners in labor courts. President Zardari assured the journalist community for the solution of their problems.
