24 April 2004	Saturday	03 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

KARACHI, April 23: The district and sessions judge, Central, Pir Ali Shah, ordered on Friday the jail authorities to produce Asif Ali Zardari on May 7 in Justice Nizam case.

Justice Nizam Ahmed, of Sindh High Court, and his son Nadim Ahmed, a lawyer, were shot dead in an attack on June 10, 1996 outside their house at PECHS area Karachi. The complainant Group Captain (Retd) Sikandar, brother-in-law of Justice Nizam Ahmed, lodged an FIR of the incident at Ferozabad police station.

The killings were attributed to a dispute over a plot adjacent to Awami Markaz as Justice Nizam Ahmed had opposed commercialization and illegal allotment of plot which was stated to be purchased by Javed Akhtar Pirzada as a front man of ex- Senator Asif Ali Zardari, an accused in case.

Asif Zardari, along with three co-accused Akhtar Javed Pirzada, Bilal Shaikh and Babar Sindhu are facing the charges of double murder.

GOVT DENIES: A spokesman of the Sindh Health Department on Friday contradicted a news item published in a section of press and aired by electronic media, regarding issue of medical certificate to Mr Asif Ali Zardari, declaring him fit for air travel, adds PPI.

Terming the news baseless, the spokesman said that only the special medical boards stationed at the Services Hospital and other teaching medical colleges were authorized to issue the medical reports regarding illness or fitness in such cases or otherwise.

As no officer of the health department had issued any medical certificate to Mr Asif Ali Zardari, therefore the news was concocted and false, the spokesman claimed.