Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's daughters back him on twitter

ISLAMABAD: After keeping a low profile on micro-blogging site Twitter for a while, President Asif Ali Zardari's two daughters are out to defend their father at a time when the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led government is facing challenges from the judiciary and the military.

Bakhtawar and Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, who have focused on 'safe' tweets in the past year or so, are back with a bang by saying things such as, "PPP is not a party of cowards."

"People cry over immunity but forget my father spent 11-and-a-half-years in prison without a single conviction," Bakhtawar pointed out in a tweet.

"Jails don't scare us," she said. Aseefa, the youngest daughter of slain premier Benazir Bhutto, tweeted yesterday: "PM (Yousuf Raza) Gilani standing tall in the face of adversity; doing justice to the position and legacy of (Benazir Bhutto) and (Zulfliqar Ali Bhutto). Proud of him."

Elder sister Bakhatawar's tweets were more hard-hitting. "For eleven (and) a-half-years a lady has fought in every city in Pakistan, across every continent in the country 2 prove her innocence," she wrote while quoting her late mother.

In another Tweet on Benazir, Bakhtawar wrote that "there is not only the Supreme Court but there is the court of the people and the court of history."

She also re-tweeted posts by PPP followers and said, "We are a party of fighters, martyrs because we believe in a democratic Pakistan."