Accountability court approves Zardari's 10-day physical remand
Accountability court approves Zardaris 10-day physical remand.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – An accountability court has Tuesday approved 10-day physical remand of former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
The court has handed over the erstwhile president to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and directed the anti-corruption watchdog to produce Asif Ali Zardari before it on June 21 after interrogations.
Let it be known that the NAB had sought 14-day physical remand from the court.
Party workers were kept away from the premises of the courthouse. At least 500 personnel of Islamabad police had been stationed for the security. As many as 300 policemen were deployed around the court, while another 200 were stationed on the routes to the court from the bureau’s office in Rawalpindi.
On the other hand, Rangers patrolled the area around the accountability court. Meanwhile all roads leading to accountability court were closed for all kind of traffic.
On Monday, former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari surrendered himself to a team of the NAB after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected his and his sibling 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 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. The NAB team did not arrest Faryal Talpur though.
Zardari was taken to the NAB office in Rawalpindi where he was shifted and to cell no 2.
