ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and former presidentAsif Ali Zardari’s spokesman has said that the rumors circulating regardingthe health of the former president are false.
In a statement released on social networking site Twitter, Amir FidaParacha, a spokesman of former President Asif Ali Zardari, said that“social media rumors about the health of former President Asif Ali Zardariare fake.”
He said that Asif Ali Zardari’s health was improving due to the prayers ofhis family and sympathizers.
Aamir Fida Paracha said that Asif Ali Zardari was twinging like an arrowsin the hearts of the enemies of democracy.
Note that there were rumors on social media about the health of formerPresident Asif Ali Zardari that his health was deteriorating.
It may be recalled that the PPP co-chairman was granted bail by theIslamabad High Court on June 10, 2019 on charges of corruption through fakebank accounts and embezzlement in financing for Park Lane Pvt. Ltd. andParthenon (Pvt.) Ltd. He was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau(NAB).
Asif Zardari, who was later arrested on money laundering charges, wasremanded in judicial custody and transferred to jail, where he was shiftedto the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) after his conditiondeteriorated.
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Asif Zardari was shifted to hospital due to various health problemsincluding back pain, weakness and anxiety.
At the recommendations of the doctors, Pims Hospital was declared asub-jail for the former president.
Dr Asif Wasim Khawaja, media coordinator of PIMS, had quoted the medicalboard as saying that “Asif Ali Zardari should not be transferred due todizziness, heart ailment and bladder problems.”
Media reports said that Asif Zardari was not taken to court due to illhealth.
Later, former President Asif Ali Zardari was released on bail from PIMSHospital on December 12, 2019 and transferred to Karachi and was shifted toa private hospital in Karachi for further examination.
