Zardari likely to take oath as Senator today

ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Asif Ali Zardari, jailed husband of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, may finally be allowed to take oath as a sen...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Asif Ali Zardari, jailed husband of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, may finally be allowed to take oath as a senator here tomorrow after more than nine months of his elections to the upper House. The Nawaz Sharif government is making arrangements for bringing Zardari from Karachi central jail for his production in the Senate and administration of oath as per the order of a division bench of the Sindh High Court, media reports said.

The government will convene a Senate session on Monday exclusively to facilitate Zardari’s oath-taking.

A special security team is expected to bring Zardari from Karachi to the capital today and he will be either kept at the rest house or at his own house which then would be declared as a “sub-jail”, the Urdu daily, Nawa-e-Waqt said.

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These arrangements are being made after the country’s Chief Justice, Ajmal Main, rejected the government’s appeal against the Sindh High Court’s judgement.

Earlier, a four-member bench of the Sindh High Court had directed the government to produce Zardari in Senate for administering oath as denying him this right would result in denying the right of representation to the people of a constituency represented by him.