*ISLAMABAD – **Former President Asif Zardari faces a setback from theAccountability court, media reoort has claimed.*
*Former president Asif Ali Zardari is currently under treatment atIslamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, wants to be treated inKarachi. *
*He filed a petition in an accountability court in Islamabad to give himpermission to do so. The court, however, dismissed his plea on Tuesday. *
Judge Muhammad Azam Khan announced the reserved verdict.
The petition, which has been filed by Zardari’s lawyer Latif Khosa, saysthat Zardari will pay the cost of his own treatment. All his medicalreports are in Karachi, Khosa told the court, adding that his client can betreated better there.
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The NAB prosecutor opposed this and said that Zardari has access to allmedical facilities in the city. “If they want the court to provide themwith a bed, then we will submit a request to the government,” he said.
His remarks did not go down well with Khosa. “Zardari has never beggedbefore anyone nor will he do so in future,” he said.
