Asif Ali Zardari released on bail from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences

• He was granted bail by the IHC on Wednesday.
• The former president was undergoing treatment at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was released on Thursday on bail, a day after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted him bail in the money laundering through fake accounts case.

Zardari was released from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) where he had been receiving treatment. The PPP leader was granted bail on Wednesday by a two-member bench presided by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah. The IHC also ordered the former president to submit Rs10 million surety bonds each in two corruption references.

Last week, the PPP leader filed for bail on medical grounds in the two cases filed against him by NAB. Zardari submitted two separate requests for bail in the Park Lane and money laundering references against him. He requested that he be given bail till the completion of the trial against him.

Zardari has been in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau since his arrest on June 10 after the IHC canceled his pre-arrest bail.