Pakistan president to be discharged from hospital today

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 14 (AFP): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will be discharged on Thursday from a Dubai hospital where he has spent more than a week but will remain in the Gulf emirate to rest, his spokesman said Wednesday. "All tests are clear and the doctors plan to discharge the president from hospital tomorrow to take rest at home and continue the heart medication," Farhatullah Babar told AFP. "The president is recovering and the doctors have advised him complete rest," Babar said, adding that Zardari would remain at his house in Dubai. Meanwhile:Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar blamed Afghan refugees for the murder of the Kabul government's peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani, officials said Wednesday. Rabbani's assassination in September by a turban bomber who purported to be a peace envoy for the Taliban derailed efforts to talk peace with the militants and postponed any hopes of a political settlement ending 10 years of war. Afghan officials lashed out at Islamabad over the killing, saying it was planned in Pakistan and carried out by a Pakistani suicide bomber. But Khar told the upper house of parliament late Tuesday that Afghan refugees living in Pakistan were responsible. "We are not responsible if Afghan refugees crossed the border and entered Kabul, stayed in a guest house and attacked Professor Rabbani," officials quoted Khar as telling the Senate. Pakistan is under huge international pressure to take action against militants based in Pakistan but who carry out attacks in Afghanistan.