KARACHI, Sept 13: It would be decided in two days whether former prime minister Benazir Bhutto would appear before the Swiss judge in the SGC Cottecna case on Sept 19, sources said here on Tuesday.

The judge has summoned Ms Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari. Senator Farooq Naek, counsel for Ms Bhutto and her husband in the case, left for Geneva on Tuesday to represent them in the hearing. Mr Zardari, who has been advised complete rest for three months, is in the US.

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