Asif back at Pims after Eid

Published December 1, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: Jailed leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former senator Asif Ali Zardari was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Saturday evening after spending Eid with his children at Zardari House.

Mr Zardari was allowed by a court to spend Eid with his children, while the government permitted him to celebrate the occasion at his house in Islamabad.

Two children of Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal and Asifa, had come to Pakistan to celebrate Eid with their father.

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