ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party leaders Asif Ali Zardari and Faryal Talpur appeared before an accountability court in the federal capital on Monday in connection with the long-running money laundering case.
In a dramatic turn of events during the appearance – which was Zardari and Talpur’s first before the accountability court – two women suspects filed a plea in the court offering to give their testimony in the case.
The two women told the accountability court’s Judge Arshad Malik that they had made a similar request to the National Accountability Bureau chairman as well.
When the judge asked the NAB prosecutor what he thought about the request, the prosecutor said the bureau would first need to check whether the request had been lodged.
The court then directed the women to submit their written pleas before the judge.
The court also adjourned the hearing till April 16.
As many as 2,000 police personnel along with 200 personnel from Punjab Rangers were stationed for the court hearing.
DIG Operations Waqaruddin Syed said that no unauthorised person would be allowed to enter the courts and no one would be allowed to take the law into their hands.
Zardari, who had reached Islamabad earlier, had asked his party workers not to come to the court.
Earlier on March 20, police and PPP workers had clashed outside the NAB court where Zardari and his son Bilawal had recorded their statements in the case.
