ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court will take up former president Asif Ali Zardari’s plea seeking bail on medical grounds in two graft cases on Wednesday (today).
Zardari had approached the IHC on Tuesday to seek bail on medical grounds.
Co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), who is under detention on charges of money laundering and presently undergoing treatment at a hospital,His sister Faryal Talpur also sought bail while their lawyer Farooq H Nayik has filed petitions for their bail.
He maintained that he is suffering from a heart condition and has had three stents placed in his body. He said that he also suffers from diabetes which means that he has to constantly monitor his blood sugar levels.
Zardari medical reports were also submitted along with the application to the IHC so that bail may be granted.
Meanwhile, Faryal Talpur also sought bail from the IHC. She maintained that she is the mother of a differently-abled child. In order to care for her child, she asked the court to grant bail until the completion of the trial.
Zardari was arrested by NAB after cancellation of his pre-arrest bail by the IHC in the fake bank accounts case on June 10.
A day earlier, PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari told the media that his ailing father had agreed to file a bail petition on medical grounds at the “insistence of his family members”.
