Islamabad: Pakistan's Anti-Corruption Court has convicted former President Asif Ali Zardari in the Park Lane and Thata water supply case. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Zardari was present in the court in Islamabad during the verdict. The court also convicted 19 other accused in the Park Lane case and 15 others in the Thata water supply case.
The court last week convicted Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur in the mega-money laundering case. In the Park Lane case, Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto are accused of buying 2,460 acres of land in a posh area of Islamabad at very low prices. Along with this, there is a charge of giving the contract of the project to a contractor by following the rules in the Thata water supply case.
The court has rejected Zardari's plea for acquittal in all three cases. Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of the country's first woman PM Benazir Bhutto, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) last year and examined for several days before being released on medical grounds in December. In Pakistan last month, the court accused former President Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur in the money laundering case. As per the case, Zardari deposited the wrongly earned money in fake bank accounts and then sent it abroad.
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