ISLAMABAD, December 3: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) fixed for hearing former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur’s bail petitions today in the money laundering through fake bank accounts and Park Lane corruption references.
A two-member bench of the court is scheduled to preside over the hearing of the bail applications filed by Farooq H Naek on behalf of both Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Accountability Court No. 2 have been made respondents in the petitions. Earlier today, Mr Zardari filed a bail plea on medical grounds whereas Talpur sought bail from the same court while pleading with the court that she was a mother of a differently-abled child, and therefore she needed to take care of that child.
Mr Zardari has maintained that he is suffering from a heart ailment and has had three stents placed in his body. He said that he also suffers from diabetes which means that he has to constantly monitor his blood sugar levels. The PPP co-chairperson’s medical reports were submitted along with the application to the IHC.
Earlier, Zardari, who has been detained on charges of money laundering through fake bank accounts and is presently undergoing treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), agreed to file a bail plea on medical grounds at the insistence of his family members.
Yesterday, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, told the media during a brief news conference after meeting his ailing father at PIMS, that they have decided to move the court for the purpose. -Agencies
