Islamabad: A local court in Pakistan has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari in assets declaration case for the fourth time.
The case against the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders is being tried by the district and sessions court on a petition filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which had claimed that Bhutto and Zardari had made false assets declaration before the Election Commission of Pakistan during the general elections in 1993.
The court also ordered the authorities concerned to serve notices on the accused through the Interpol. NAB, in its petition, said Bhutto and her husband who lived abroad had immense wealth and property in foreign countries, which they had earned through, corrupt practices.
"It is on this count that they suppressed the fact of ownership of these properties abroad in their declaration of assets before Election Commission of Pakistan," local daily Dawn quoted a lawyer of NAB as telling the court on Friday.
He said although the accused had not mentioned about their properties while declaring their assets before the CEC, they had admitted ownership of these properties before a Swiss court.
Meanwhile, the PPP denounced the arrest warrants against Bhutto and Zardari and termed it an abuse of the judicial process by the Musharraf regime.
In a statement, Senator Babar Awan said the couple had declared their assets before the returning officers Larkana and Nawabshah, respectively, in 1993 and no objection was raised by anyone at that time.
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