Bhutto's husband indicted

Islamabad - The Pakistani government yesterday received a Swiss judge's indictment of the former prime minister Ms Benazir Bhutto…

Islamabad - The Pakistani government yesterday received a Swiss judge's indictment of the former prime minister Ms Benazir Bhutto's jailed husband Asif Ali Zardari for alleged money laundering, the official APP news agency said.

It said the "original indictment order" of the Geneva judge, Mr Daniel Devaud, was handed to a Pakistan foreign ministry official by the Swiss ambassador in Islamabad to be served on Zardari at the central jail in Karachi.

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