LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has reached Lahore today (Saturday) on an ‘important’ visit to mobilise Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Punjab.
According to details, several important political personalities are expected to meet the former president today and join the Pakistan People’s Party. Asif Zardari is also in touch with various important personalities active in the country’s politics.
Relevant sources have claimed that former Punjab governor Zulfiqar Khan Khosa is also likely to meet Zardari. Former MPA Qasim Zia is likely to be given important responsibilities in Punjab.
Zardari is also scheduled for a medical examination during his visit to Lahore, the sources said, adding that he will preside over various meetings of PPP’s Punjab chapter.
Meanwhile, an accountability court in Islamabad has summoned former president Asif Ali Zardari and other co-accused in the money laundering reference on the next hearing scheduled for June 29.
The order was released by Judge Asghar Ali of the court and the prosecutor for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) also appeared before the court during the day’s proceedings.
Earlier, on June 10, NAB opposed Zardari’s request for the transfer of his graft trials from accountability courts in Islamabad to a similar court in Karachi in view of his illness.
One of the NAB’s directors general submitted a 13-page statement in the Supreme Court in response to the plea. The statement maintained that the accountability courts in Islamabad had already indicted the PPP leader and that NAB was presenting witnesses before the courts without any delay.
