ISLAMABAD, March 23: President of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said the orders of a low-level accountability court to confiscate the property of Asif Ali Zardari is a perversion of judicial process by the military dictatorship to achieve its political agenda.

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday announced that it had confiscated 148 acres as well as other properties of Asif Ali Zardari following a court order.

District coordination officers of Nawabshah, Sanghar and Hyderabad in Sindh have confiscated Mr Zardari’s properties as ordered last month by the accountability court of Rawalpindi, the NAB announcement said. “The confiscation of property by a lower level NAB court is not only disproportionate but also illegal,” Makhdoom Amin Fahim said.

The PPP leader said Asif Zardari was present in the court for eight years and nothing could be proved against him. He had been given bail by the Supreme Court and left the country with the permission of the court. Further Asif Zardari had always been represented in the courts by his lawyers.

As such the order to confiscate his property was illegal and the PPP would challenge it in higher courts, he said.