KARACHI: Former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has been admitted to a hospital today (Friday) after his health deteriorated.
According to details, Bilawal Bhutto has arrived in Karachi from Islamabad while Bakhtawar Bhutto and her husband have also reached the city from Dubai to attend to her father.
Last year in October, the former president was admitted to a hospital due to low sugar level. Bilawal, during his recent address at the National Assembly, had said that the former president attended a budget session despite being unwell.
The former president had arrived in Karachi recently from Lahore and Islamabad. In Lahore, he had recently attended a meeting with former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi.
The former president, who is nominated in multiple corruption cases filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), is out on bail granted by the Islamabad High Court on medical grounds last year.
Recently, he was indicted in money laundering, Park Lane properties and Thatta water supply references instituted by the National Accountability Bureau.
During a hearing of the bail petition filed by Zardari, his legal counsel Advocate Farooq H. Naek told the court that the former president “is a chronic patient suffering from multiple ailments.
“He is a heart patient having three stents in his heart. He has a Holter Monitor attached to his chest so that the doctors are able to check and note variations in his heartbeat and blockages in his arteries. The petitioner is a patient of ischemic heart disease, which means that his heart may have inadequate supply of blood and oxygen,” he added.
Naek had said Zardari also “suffers from various other ailments such as cervical and lumbar spondylosis, sensory and motor neuropathy with impaired proprioception”.
