KARACHI: National Accountability Bureau on Thursday takes Dr Asim into custody from Gulberg police station.
Sources said that Dr Asim was shifted to an unidentified place. Dr Asim Hussain – a close aide of PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari – was being investigated over allegations of corruption and facilitating terrorists at his private hospital in Karachi. He had been taken into custody on August 26 and had since been on remand in either Rangers or police custody.
Denying all charges, Dr Asim claimed that a false FIR had been lodged and a serious case is being built against him on the statement of one medical superintendent at his hospital. He claimed that the police was taking directions from “somewhere else”.
Dr Asim, who served as the petroleum minister during the tenure of the PPP government , was taken into custody on August 26 under Section 11-EEEE of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, and a joint interrogation team was formed after getting approval from the Sindh government.
The Sindh Rangers registered a case against Dr Asim at a North Nazimabad police station last month, soon after the expiry of the 90-day remand that the paramilitary force had obtained from the anti-terrorism court for investigation after his arrest in August.
