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	Asif Ali Zardari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asif Ali Zardari (Urdu: آصف علی زرداری) is the husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
		Zardari is currently suffering from diabetes and a spinal ailment as a result of his prolonged imprisonment.
		In August 2004, Zardari acknowledged owning a £4.35m estate in Surrey, England (including a 20-room mansion and two farms on 365 acres, or 1.5 km², of land), which the Pakistani authorities allege was bought with the proceeds of corruption.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari (425 words)

	Human rights of parliamentarians: 177th Governing Council session
		Zardari was first arrested in November 1996, that a series of criminal cases and accountability cases have been brought against him, some of which have remained at a standstill, and that on 22 November 2004 Mr.
		Zardari was tortured on 17 and 19 May 1999, as established by a judicial inquiry on 16 September 1999, and that the culprits have yet to be brought to justice; that in May 2004 Mr.
		Zardari was tortured, the authorities have yet to take the most basic steps, such as an examination of the register with the names of the officers on duty at the time and place of his torture, to identify the culprits and bring them to trial;
	www.ipu.org /hr-e/177/Pak08.htm (564 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Asif Zardari is released after eight years in prison
		Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was released Monday on $16,900 bail on the last of numerous corruption charges that have kept him in prison since 1996.
		Mr Zardari was released from detention in hospital in the southern city of Karachi, where he was being treated for various ailments.
		Asif Ali Zardari, 52, accused of corruption during Ms Bhutto's two periods in power in the early 1990s, was released yesterday on bail of 1 million rupees ($21,616) after eight years in jail.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/11/23/57248_.html (433 words)

	Asif Zardari -- Much Sinned Against - Sify.com
		Asif Zardari is a humble man. He rejected attempts to get him into a leadership contest.
		Asif served as a Federal Minister twice in 1993 and in 1996.
		Asif's name will be one of those shining stars while those of his tormentors will fade from history.
	sify.com /fullstory.php?id=13211454 (1009 words)

	The Man With Nine Lives
		However, Zardari was arrested on allegations made in FIR 443/96, the third FIR registered, that he conspired to murder Murtaza Bhutto.
		Zardari was granted bail on medical grounds on November 24, 1998.
		Zardari filed an application for bail on medical and statutory grounds in March 2000, which entitle a person to bail if the case has not concluded in two years and has borne no result because of the judge's failure to hear the application that has been pending for over a year.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsDec2004/cover3dec2004.htm (2526 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Profile: Asif Zardari
		Indeed, the misdeeds attributed to Mr Zardari range from the bizarre to the downright horrific.
		Asif Zardari suffers from diabetes and a spinal ailment which prevents him from moving around without the help of a walking stick, and much of his time in prison must have been spent on thinking about the hundreds of people who were major beneficiaries of his presence in the prime minister's house.
		Mr Zardari insists that the negotiations were never about his release but there are few takers for this claim.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4032997.stm (987 words)

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		The influence of Asif Zardari is real and he has in the past always helped and favoured his friends and cronies, one of which is the Cotecna agent.
		Zardari not only carried out actions so that the agreement between Bomer Finance Inc. be kept secret, but he also participated in the putting in place of companies which he knew would serve as a screen to camouflage the real recipients of funds which he would cause to be paid by SGS and Cotecna.
		The relationship between Zardari, Shanks, the company Dargal and the Ursus transaction was confirmed in a handwritten note of Schlegelmich summing up a telephone conversation with Amer Lodhi who gave him instructions on the sharing of the Ursus "commissions", and asked him to "mention to Asif so that he is aware of his gesture".
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040409000106000.htm&date=fl2107/&prd=fline& (4054 words)

	Pakistan rulers indulging in witch-hunting: Zardari
		PPP leader and husband of former Pakistan premier Asif Ali Zardari has said that the present day rulers in his country were indulging into witch hunting, and that the day was not far when they (rulers) would be paying the price for their misbehaviour with the Opposition leaders.
		In the statement, Zardari also asked his party workers not to be impressed by state terrorism, and continue to wage struggle for the revival of true democracy in the country.
		Asif Zardari have always been represented in the courts by his lawyers, he said adding that the PPP would challenge the order in higher courts.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Asia/20060402/295525.html (413 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Asif Ali Zardari, freed on bail on November 22 after eight years in jail on charges of corruption, murder and drug smuggling, was detained at Islamabad airport after arriving from Karachi.
		Zardari, investment minister in Benazir’s government that ruled until 1996, holds no formal position in the PPP but had planned his trip to Islamabad to rally support for the party.
		Zardari was freed last month after the Supreme Court granted him bail in a case involving importation of a BMW car, the only one of eight cases against him in which he had been denied bail.
	www.timesofoman.com /newsdetails.asp?newsid=8169 (661 words)

	INDOlink - International News - A Freed Zardari Denies Deal With Govt.
		Asif said that he would remain in politics and play an active role as a ‘bridge’ between political forces for the restoration of democracy and the Constitution.
		Zardari said that he was very happy that he was back in home but added he was missing his wife and children.
		Zardari was released from a local hospital, which had been declared as a sub-jail, after the Supreme Court granted him bail in the BMW duty case in Islamabad earlier in the day.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=112204082728 (945 words)

	Asif Zardari freed on bail
		Both Zardari and Benazir Bhutto earlier claimed in separate communications with the South Asia Tribune that the bail was not the result of any compromise or deals with the military government.
		Asif Ali Zardari was arrested on November 4, 1996 in Lahore and eight cases were filed against him.
		The Tribune said the release of Asif Zardari will mark the beginning of a new phase of politics in Pakistan as other political partners of PPP may seek assurances to the effect that PPP would continue to be an active partner in the movement against General Musharraf's uniform and for restoration of full democracy.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/nov/22pak.htm (680 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Asif Ali Zardari hopes to be released on Wednesday
		Asif Ali Zardari was arrested at the airport near the capital, Islamabad, where he had been due to address an opposition rally.
		Mr Zardari was later flown back to Karachi where he was allowed to address reporters before being confined to his bungalow, which was guarded by about two dozen armed police, reports the Guardian Unlimited.
		Asif Ali Zardari was detained on the orders of a court after he failed to attend a hearing in a murder trial in the city of Karachi.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/12/22/57526_.html (487 words)

	News
		On December 15, 2001 Asif Zardari was granted bail in the last of the cases (twentieth) against him.
		NAB re-arrested Asif on December 15, 2001 merely on the ground that he ‘appeared to be involved in offences listed in the schedule of offences mentioned in the NAB ordinance’.
		Zardari was arrested on the night of November 4, 1996 initially under one preventive detention known as the Lahore Maintenance of Public Order and then under a second Karachi Maintenance of Public Order.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/nov04/30/10.htm (515 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Bail Application Cancelled: Asif Zardari re-arrested at Karachi airport
		Meanwhile, Asif Ali Zardari was re-arrested on Tuesday, as soon as he landed at the Karachi airport after he was sent back from Islamabad.
		Zardari, who was released on bail on November 22, was on his way to Islamabad onboard PIA flight PK 368 on Tuesday.
		Reports said the flight carrying Zardari landed at the Karachi airport at 5.40pm, but he was kept for about one-and-a-half hours in the airport lounge because a large number of PPP activists were waiting for him outside.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/12/22/top.htm (1263 words)

	Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
		Zardari is described in a BBC article as a “playboy” who has had a colorful relationship with the government and the courts:
		Zardari, who was with Ms Bhutto in the interview, said that the MMA had admitted its mistake on the 17th amendment, adding that the religious alliance paved the way for the army chief to become president.
		All that she said was Asif Zardari would return to Pakistan to boost the democratic struggle in the country.” “At the shrine she also prayed for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan.
	www.publiuspundit.com /?p=903 (2965 words)

	DAWN - Irfan Hussain; 15 November, 2003
		Asif Zardari's friends who knew him in his bachelor days beg to differ: they talk about a young man perpetually strapped for cash, and whose tastes far outstripped his financial resources.
		The Gujrat Chaudries are a case in point: while widely alleged to be recipients of vast loans improperly sanctioned by cooperative and commercial banks, they are courted not just by their many hangers-on, but by the president himself in his quest to cobble together a workable alliance to support him.
		I must confess that one reason I am taking up cudgels on Asif Zardari's behalf is that I have a sneaking admiration for the humour and courage he has displayed during his seven years in jail.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/mazdak/20031115.htm (1015 words)

	Asif Ali Zardari Has Heart Attack
		Zardari is allowed to travel he will be going to London for further follow-up of the angioplasty,” the party said.
		Zardari, in his early fifties, was released on bail in November after eight years in jail on charges ranging from corruption to murder.
		Zardari’s release raised speculation that President Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, might be considering better relations with Benazir’s secular, liberal party.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=64948&d=6&m=6&y=2005&pix=world.jpg&category=World (338 words)

	The Nation
		KARACHI - Asif Ali Zardari, the spouse of former prime minister and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto, was released Monday night from Ziauddin Medical University where he was kept in custody, following the grant of bail in the BMW reference by the Supreme Court.
		Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and Justice Shakirullah Jan were the other two members of the bench whereas the counsel of Asif Zardari, Farook H. Naek, Aitzaz Ahsan and Dr. Babar Awan pleaded the case on behalf of the appellant.
		Whereas the reference was filed against Zardari after one and a half years of the seizure of car on December 15, 2001.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/nov-2004/23/index1.php (1018 words)

	Untitled Document
		Asif Zardari was said to have become enraged and broke his drinking water glass with which he tried to cut himself (2) In the second version, during interrogation, Asif Zardari was said to have become enraged and broke the window glass with his hand with which he tried to cut his throat.
		Zardari, but this time he was said to have cut his tongue with his own teeth in the bathroom and had come out bleeding.
		He said that Zardari had already been granted bail before his arrest in the case in which he was taken illegally to police custody.
	www.ppp.org.pk /saaz/AnsarBurneyTrustRefutesPolice.html (1046 words)

	Pakistan Link Headlines
		The meeting condemned the eight year long detention of Asif Zardari as a worst kind of human rights violation and a blatant attempt to flmail Mohtarma Bhutto to dissuade her from opposing the anti people policies of the regime.
		This was a clear proof that the cases against Asif Zardari were politically motivated and had nothing to do with law and morality.
		The PPP leaders said that in violation of the Supreme Court order Senator Zardari was brought from Karachi to Islamabad and kept in solitary confinement depriving him of the specialised medical treatment he was receiving in a Karachi hospital and aggravating his disease.
	www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/July04/19/07.html (472 words)

	Hearing of case against Asif Zardari put off -DAWN - National; 27 November, 2004
		KARACHI, Nov 26: The district and sessions judge, Central, Syed Pir Ali Shah put off on Friday the hearing of the Justice Nizam murder case against Asif Ali Zardari, spouse of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, on the request of the defence counsel.
		The killings were attributed to a dispute over a plot adjacent to Awami Markaz as Justice Nizam Ahmed had opposed commercialization and illegal allotment of plot which was stated to be purchased by Javed Akhtar Pirzada as a front man of ex-Senator Asif Ali Zardari, accused in the case.
		Asif Zardari, along with three other co-accused Akhtar Javed Pirzada, Bilal Shaikh and Babar Sindhu, is facing charges in the double murder case.
	www.dawn.com /2004/11/27/nat12.htm (457 words)

	Human rights of parliamentarians: 167th Council session
		Zardari and that the injuries he had sustained during such interrogation were the result of severe ill-treatment on the night of 19 May 1999; according to the sources, instead of prosecuting the perpetrators of such ill-treatment, Senator Zardari will now be prosecuted for attempted suicide, an offence under Pakistani penal law,
		Zardari is ill and that a medical board set up by order of the High Court of Sindh for his medical examination and treatment reportedly ordered that he be hospitalised; that he is at present in hospital; that the Board also recommended treatment in a specialised spinal institution abroad; that Mr.
		Zardari was ill-treated while in detention and that, instead of those responsible for such criminal action being brought to justice, he could be prosecuted on a charge of attempted suicide;
	www.ipu.org /hr-e/167/Pak08.htm (703 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
		Asif Ali Zardari, husband of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, has filed a petition in the Sindu High Court seeking government protection and issuance of a passport to enable him to go abroad for medical treatment and meet his family.
		Mr Zardari, who was released from prison after eight years of imprisonment in connection with various criminal and corruption cases, has approached the court amidst strong objection from the government that he has been denied of holding a passport, media reports said.
		Mr Zardari in his petition argued that he was not convicted in any case currently and keeping his name on the ECL was illegal and unconstitutional.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041218/world.htm (1635 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Pakistan rearrests Bhutto's husband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Asif Ali Zardari was released last month from eight years in jail after the supreme court granted him bail involving other cases over alleged corruption.
		The judge cited Zardari's failure to attend proceedings in the murder trial, said Awan.
		Zardari is accused of illegally making money while his wife was the prime minister.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/AFD747E8-109F-48BF-A4B9-7F47C9D1D0C3.htm (287 words)

	PakDef Forums - Mr 10% out of jail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		KARACHI, Dec 26: The release orders of Asif Ali Zardari, spouse of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who has been granted bail in all cases against him, were issued on Monday by the courts after surety bonds were furnished in the last three cases on his behalf.
		Asif Zardari, who was initially detained under the Maintenance of Public Order, was first arrested in the Murtaza Bhutto murder case in November 1996, after the high court set aside his detention under MPO.
		Munawwar Soharwardi, a leader of the Pakistan People's Party, told Dawn that the release of Asif Zardari was expected very shortly as the surety bonds of the bails, obtained in all cases, had accordingly been furnished.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=571 (2070 words)

	ONLINE - International News Network
		LAHORE: Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are likely to have meeting in the next 24 hours, says PPP sources following the categorical denial by the PPP spokesman of the reports on arrival of Zardari in Saudi Arabia for performance of Ummrah.
		It is beyond any doubt that Zardari spent eight years in jail and both he and Benazir intend to perform Ummrah after his release, he indicated.
		Replying to a question he said that meeting between Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari and Benazir Bhutto is not on schedule in Saudi Arabia during performance of Ummrah.
	www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=73816 (498 words)

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