Aseefa Bhutto Zardari on Friday told journalists that her father Asif Ali Zardari has again been shifted to prison from the hospital.
Addressing a press conference here at Zardari House, Aseefa said when she visited her father in hospital Friday morning, doctors informed her that they are being pressurized to shift back former president Zardari to jail whereas his condition requires that he should stay at the hospital for further tests and treatment. “Two medical examinations were conducted, one by NAB authorities and other by judicial authorities. Both examinations show that Zardari needs immediate medical attention,” she said. “One of the reasons is that three arteries in his heart are blocked. He also suffers from severe spinal issues as a result of 11-and-a-half years of unlawful incarceration. Due to such issues, he needs immediate medical attention,” she observed.
Aseefa Bhutto said that her family and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) demand that former president Zardari is immediately shifted back to hospital to receive proper medical treatment. “This is his right as a citizen of Pakistan and also as former president and head of a political party and sitting MNA. Denial of his right is denial of human rights as well as justice. This is political victimisation. He is the only former president not running away from the courts and from the country,” she said. “We will like to reiterate PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s statement that it clearly shows the intent of the selected government to endanger Zardari’s life to achieve its own agenda,” she said, and warned that if anything happens to her father, the family and the party will hold the ‘selected’ government responsible and accountable.
Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said that government doctors have advised to keep Zardari in hospital for treatment but this government is not providing him health facilities, and demanded to shift him to the hospital immediately. Former senator Farhatullah Babar said that on the day when ‘selected PM’ was asking people to protest against human rights violations in Kashmir. he himself violated the basic rights of a former president of Pakistan. Senator Sherry Rehman said there will be consequences if ‘selected’ government does not give up its conduct, and warned that the government will have to face resistance by the PPP.
