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Summary The letter was sent after Supreme Court approved its draft.
The much awaited letter has been written and sent to Swiss authoritieson Tuesday following the Supreme Court orders in NRO implementation case, Daily Dunya reported.According to the newspaper, a foreign ministry official confirmed that law ministry handed over the letter some three days ago.He said that Pakistan’s envoy will present the letter to Swiss officials, adding that its receipt will be submitted in the apex court later.The apex court had given the government one-month deadline to write the letter to the Swiss to withdraw a previous letter to the Swiss government by former attorney general Malik Qayyum, seeking closure of alleged graft cases against President Zardari.Allegations of corruption against President Zardari date back to the 1990s, when the Presidents late wife, Benazir Bhutto, was in power as Prime Minister.Formal investigations were previously carried out by the Swiss authorities into allegations of money laundering using President Zardaris Swiss bank accounts. The investigations ceased when the Pakistani government intervened in 2008.The government had spent more than two years resisting court orders to write to authorities in Switzerland to ask them to re-open multimillion dollar graft investigations into Zardari arguing that, as head of state, he enjoys immunity from prosecution.Finally, the tussle between the judiciary and the PPP-led government came to an end following the latter’s decision to implement the orders.
