Pakistan court quashes corruption case against Zardari
27 Aug 2017 10:19 PM IST
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former president Asif Ali Zardari has been acquitted by an anti-corruption court in an old corruption case in which he was accused of possessing illegal assets.
Zardari's counsel Farooq H Naek requested for acquittal of Zardari and Justice Khalid Mahmood Ranjha National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court accepted it.
He said that the most of the documents presented against 62-year-old Zardari were in photocopies and unacceptable. He also said that most of the witnesses said that they did not remember most of the details as it was an old case.
Finally, the judge quashed the case and acquitted the former president yesterday.
The case was launched in 1999 but quashed in 2007 along with five more such cases against Zardari after a political deal between his now slain wife Benazir Bhutto and former dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf.
However, the Supreme Court rejected the deal.
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