Former President Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur filed on Saturday a petition in the Sindh High Court (SHC) challenging the banking court's verdict in transferring the money laundering through fake accounts case to the accountability court in Rawalpindi.

The siblings appeared before the court to file their application. In his petition, Zardari argued that the decision of the banking court was against the law. He requested the high court to declare the decision null and void, local media reported.

On Friday, the banking court Judge Judge Tariq Khoso accepted the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) request and allowed it to transfer the case to Rawalpindi. The court had also withdrawn the interim pre-arrest bails granted Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur and some others accused in the case.

Following the verdict, the former president that it made no difference if the case has been shifted to Rawalpindi, that it made no difference if the case has been shifted to Rawalpindi.