KARACHI: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari was admitted to a private hospital in Karachi due to “exertion and exhaustion” caused by his frequent travelling of late, PPP information secretary Shazia Atta Marri said on Friday.

She tweeted that Mr Zardari suffered exertion and exhaustion from “travelling for court appearances and budget session” that concluded two days ago. The former president was in Lahore for over a week and had left for Islamabad late last month where he attended post-budget sessions in the National Assembly.

“Former President Asif Ali Zardari has been admitted to a private hospital in Karachi following advice from his doctors due to exertion and exhaustion from travelling for court appearances and Budget session,” Ms Marri tweeted.

The accountability court had on June 14 summoned Mr Zardari and his alleged frontman Mushtaq Ahmed in a case related to a suspicious transaction of Rs8.3 billion from Bahria Town’s account.

Published in Dawn, July 3rd, 2021