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Summary Earlier,Supreme Court had twice rejected the Swiss letter drafts as unsatisfactory.
After weeks of wrangling over the wording, the Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a third draft of a letter to the Swiss authorities and asked for an update on the situation in four weeks.During the hearing, Law Minister Farooq H. Naek presented the revised draft of the letter to be sent to Swiss authorities for reopening a graft case against President Asif Ali Zardari.The bench expressed satisfaction over letter’s draft, even termed it ‘praiseworthy’.It was the first time that an honest attempt had been made to write the letter, Justice Khosa said.Since December 2009, the Supreme Court has insisted that the government re-open multi-million-dollar graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland that were frozen when he became head of state in 2008.The government has long argued that it could not ask the Swiss to reopen the cases as the president has immunity from prosecution as head of state.The allegations against Zardari date back to the 1990s, when he and his late wife, former premier Benazir Bhutto, are suspected of using Swiss banks to launder $12 million in alleged kickbacks.
