Court rejects plea seeking Zardari’s transfer to hospital

Islamabad: An accountability court on Tuesday rejected a plea seeking the transfer of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari from jail to a hospital.
Fake accounts case The former president is currently on judicial remand till October 22 in the fake accounts case. Zardari had moved the court on October 4 seeking it to declare a hospital a sub-jail for him, Dawn News reported.
However, on Tuesday, the court rejected the plea maintaining that the matter “does not fall in the court’s jurisdiction”.
Judge Mohammad Bashir, while pronouncing the previously reserved decision, directed Zardari to approach the “relevant forum” for the matter.
The judge in its three-page verdict declared that the court cannot declare a hospital a sub-jail, as sought in the plea. According to the verdict, jail authorities can declare a hospital a sub-jail through an executive order.
The court advised the petitioner to, therefore, approach the jail authorities with his request.