Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has denied that he made a tacit deal with the establishment.

Zardari, in his famous eent se eent bajana speech of 2015, had slammed the military establishment before going into a self-imposed exile for the next 18 months. His return to Pakistan in December 2016 was viewed by some as a product of a rumoured deal — a claim he rubbished in a recent interview with Geo News.

Ismail [Dahiri] would not have been arrested if I had made a deal with someone. Rather arrests would have been made on my instructions [if I had a deal]. — Asif Ali Zardari

Man has a point, and then some — all of which can be read here and viewed here.

Meanwhile, here's that speech: