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An accountability court in Karachi on Tuesday allowed Dr Asim Hussain to travel abroad for medical treatment from Oct 2-30, DawnNewsTV reported.
Hussain's counsel submitted a medical report in court today which insisted that the PPP member was unwell and required "immediate medical treatment".
Though his name was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) in 2015, it has been struck off multiple times on his requests to be allowed to go abroad for medical treatment. In June this year, an accountability court had allowed him to travel outside the country for the same reason from June 12 till July 12.
Hussain, who is a close aide of former president Asif Ali Zardari, had filed a plea in court to be allowed to travel abroad on medical grounds.
Hussain is facing two corruption references pertaining to alleged corruption of over Rs460 billion through fraudulent allotment of land for expansion of his hospital and money laundering.
He is also accused of fraudulently awarding contracts for five gas fields to Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited which allegedly caused a loss of Rs17.338bn to national exchequer.
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Oct 02, 2018 11:44am
PPP can bribe anyone in Sindh :(
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Oct 02, 2018 11:49am
This is a joke! Embarrassing & Shameful as a nation
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Oct 02, 2018 11:50am
Medical treatment for what condition?
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Oct 02, 2018 11:51am
Another medical report, another joke with this country's systems, again we'll spend millions for the efforts to get him back when we will see him dancing in parties.
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Oct 02, 2018 11:53am
In other words, you're free to go. Money always buys freedom.
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Oct 02, 2018 12:00pm
Regardless of all the other issues - Dr Asim is not the best ambassador for his hospital - doesn’t trust his treatment to his own hospital!
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Oct 02, 2018 12:02pm
Is there any guarantee he will return unlike Ishaq Dar who went for the same purposes and never returned.
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Oct 02, 2018 12:12pm
Something is utterly wrong with justice system of this country.
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Oct 02, 2018 12:13pm
Why not admit him to the same hospital where the terrorists were being treated under his watch.
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Oct 02, 2018 12:23pm
Pakistan must be the only country in the world, where no sick person can seek quality medical treatment. Especially if they are politically connected, ultra-corrupt and ultra-rich. They simply do not even try to find a cure for their mysterious ailment in the country. It has to in the UK of all places.
He's gone on a one-way ticket, to enjoy his retirement. Thanks to his friend and sponsor, AAZ! Case closed, because he is never going to return to face the charges.
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Oct 02, 2018 12:32pm
How these politicians got illnesses which cannot be treated in Pakistan?
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Oct 02, 2018 12:39pm
He ain’t coming back for sure.
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Oct 02, 2018 12:40pm
a doctor needs a medical treatment abroad. He was unable to introduce similar state of the art facilities in his own hospital. Good going Mr. Asim
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Oct 02, 2018 12:52pm
The Guy owns so many hospitals and yet none of his hospitals can treat him! What a joke!
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Oct 02, 2018 12:57pm
He has his own hospital where political prisoners happily stay. But he needs treatment from abroad! That's irony!
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Oct 02, 2018 01:01pm
Why all the looters have to have treatment out of country?
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Oct 02, 2018 01:12pm
Why, he has one of the best hospital in Karachi, yet he is allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment ? why ? what about other poor prisoners languishing in jail for so many years yet & awaiting justice ?
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Oct 02, 2018 01:13pm
He has his own hospital but why is he going abroad?
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Oct 02, 2018 01:14pm
@Zubair special conditions know as money laundering.
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Oct 02, 2018 02:43pm
A doctor running his own hospital needs to go abroad for 'immediate medical treatment'... What a joke...
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Oct 02, 2018 03:15pm
Doesn't he own a Hospital, why not getting his medical treatment for a mysterious disease there instead of abroad?
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Oct 02, 2018 05:00pm
@ishrat salim .... There is only one reason. You must know what that is by now.
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Oct 02, 2018 05:18pm
Does he not own and run a state of the art, expensive Hospital-University in Karachi with his sister? So just wondering what is the need for traveling abroad? Would he not get better and cost effective treatment at his own Hospital? Court should ask/consider this question.
May some day common sense prevail.
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Oct 02, 2018 05:56pm
I don't see him returning back soon.
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Oct 02, 2018 06:29pm
Such acts encourages corruption. Please build one high class hospital for these people instead
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Oct 02, 2018 06:52pm
A "doctor" who own many hospitals is going overseas for medical reasons ? He has millions abroad, which he wants to take care. This is a big slap in the face of IK government. I heard Zardari at one of his private party, boasting that " this government cannot stop one of my minor operative from leaving the country, do you think that they can stop me ".EOQ.
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Oct 02, 2018 07:06pm
Long Live NRO.
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Oct 02, 2018 09:39pm
PPP is hard to control unlike PMLN,
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Oct 02, 2018 10:43pm
If he leaves, we Pakistanis will further be dissappointed and discouraged.
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Oct 02, 2018 11:43pm
This shows that how committed corrupt criminal peoples are we being dr. And in power for more than 3 decade's
Failed to build a hospital in pakistan where these corrupt criminal people can be treated
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Oct 02, 2018 11:53pm
Sind is PPP government. There leader Zardari should become Nazwaz's neighbour.
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Oct 03, 2018 12:31am
That's probably the last we'll see of him. Surely there must be health facilities in Pakistan that could provide the required treatment.
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Oct 03, 2018 02:09am
Put him back on ECL list. He did not care of Pakistan and fraudulently acquired land so why we should care about him. Who would be responsible if he did not return?
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