PTI government to be responsible if something happens to Zardari: Bilawal

Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Tuesday said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would be responsible if something happens to his father Asif Ali Zardari in Adiala Jail. Bilawal expressed his concerns on the health conditions of his father in his tweet on Tuesday. "The Pakistani state continues to try and use my father's ailing health to pressure my party.

Despite being detained without being convicted of anything since August, he is still to receive medical care." He said that despite multiple medical reports from the government's own doctors that he should be provided with medical facilities in prison and shifted to hospital for investigation and treatment, he has been denied his fundamental rights. He added that neither was he taken to hospital nor was provided with a fridge to keep his insulin and medicines.

The PPP chairman further tweeted, "If anything was, God forbid, to happen to my father, we will hold this government responsible. Despite these tactics we will not compromise on our principles or democratic politics." Earlier, an accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday rejected a plea seeking the transfer of Zardari from jail to hospital. The former president is currently on judicial remand till October 22 in the fake bank accounts case.

Zardari had moved the court on October 4, seeking it to declare a hospital a sub-jail for him. The court rejected the plea on the grounds that the matter does not fall in the court's jurisdiction. On Monday, Judge Muhammad Bashir reserved a verdict in the same application after hearing arguments from Zardari's advocate Latif Khosa.

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