Zardari secures bail again
The husband of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was granted bail by a court yesterday, his lawyers said, a day after he was arrested for failing to turn up for a murder case hearing.
Asif Ali Zardari had been placed under house arrest Tuesday, less than a month after he was first freed on bail in the last of 17 cases of corruption, murder and drug smuggling after eight years behind bars.
Sindh provincial high court in the southern city of Karachi had overturned a judge's order on Tuesday to revoke his bail and have him rearrested, Zardari's lawyer Aziz Ullah Sheikh said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "The two judges at the court, after hearing my arguments, suspended the order and granted bail in the sum of 300,000 rupees (5,000 dollars) surety," he said outside the high court.
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