- Ex-President will be presented before the Accountability Court today
- NAB to seek Asif Zardari’s 15-day physical remand
ISLAMABAD, June 10: National Assembly session was adjourned on Monday after commotion over the arrest of PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari in money laundering case.
During the session, opposition members insisted the NA Speaker to allow Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to speak. However, the Speaker responded that Bilawal will be given the chance to speak after Sheikh Rashid’s speech.
Ruckus ensued as the angry opposition members went in front of speaker’s dais to lodge their protest.
Railways Minister Shiekh Rashid asserted that if he is not allowed to speak, he won’t let anyone else speak in the house. Sensing the rising friction, the deputy speaker called for the adjournment till 5PM onTuesday.
Bilawal in his reaction on the development said that it’s the second time that the MNAs from Jhelum and Rawalpindi were preferred over an MNA from Larkana. “My voice has been censored again. Two federal ministers were preferred over me,” he said.
Earlier, former president and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari surrendered himself to a team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected Asif Ali Zardari and Faryal Talpur’s pre-arrest bail plea in the money laundering case.
Following the refusal of his pre-arrest bail, a team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accompanied by police personnel had reached the residence of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in order to arrest him.
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asifa Bhutto were present on the ocassion.
He will be taken to anti-graft watchdog s office in Rawalpindi and would be shifted to cell no 2 where he would be interrogated. The former president will be presented before the accountability court on Tuesday(today) where the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will seek his 15-day physical remand. Agencies
