IHC to hear Zardari, Talpur’s bail pleas today

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday fixed petitions for hearing on Wednesday (today) seeking post-arrest bails of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur in fake accounts reference.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Aamer Farooq would hear the bail petitions. Zardari stated in his plea that he had been suffering from multiple diseases so he needed medical care round the clock. The former president further stated he was facing political victimisation and wrongly implicated in many false and fabricated cases. Zardari said he was a heart patient having three stents in his heart. The petitioner also suffered from various other ailments such as diabetic, cervical lumbar and spondylosis, sensory and motor neuropathy with impaired proprioception.

The petitioner prayed the court to grant him post-arrest bail on medical grounds in Park Lane reference connected with fake accounts scam.

While Zardari’s sister Faryal Talpur in her bail petition stated she had been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on June 14 in fake accounts reference. However, the bureau could not prove anything against her during five months’ investigation, she said. She stated she could not be left on the mercy of jail officials and prayed the court to grant post-arrest bail to her.The two petitioners nominated the federal government and the NAB chairman as respondents.