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The President considered it essential not to burden the national exchequer and preferred to forgo his salary,\u201d President Secretariat Press Wing said in a press release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Asif Ali Zardari has decided, in view of the prevailing economic challenges, that he will not draw his presidential salary. \u201cHe took this decision to encourage prudent financial management in the country. The President considered it essential not to burden the national exchequer and preferred to forgo his salary,\u201d President Secretariat Press Wing said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Zardari decides not to draw his salary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/president-zardari-decides-not-to-draw-his-salary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Zardari decides not to draw his salary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Asif Ali Zardari has decided, in view of the prevailing economic challenges, that he will not draw his presidential salary. \u201cHe took this decision to encourage prudent financial management in the country. 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