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An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday issued a release order for former federal minister and PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain in a case relating to the alleged treatment of terrorists at his hospital.
Dr Asim was booked on the complaint of Rangers for allegedly treating and harbouring suspected terrorists, militants and gangsters at the North Nazimabad and Clifton branches of his hospital at the behest of some MQM and PPP leaders.
Earlier today, the Sindh High Court granted bail to Dr Asim in two corruption references filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on the submission of surety bonds worth Rs5 million.
Justice Aftab Ahmed Gorar, a referee judge in the case, approved the bail on 'medical grounds'.
Sindh High Court Chief Justice Syed Sajjad Ali Shah had appointed Justice Gorar as the referee judge after a divisional bench of the Sindh High Court was unable to reach a consensus regarding the bail application.
NAB has been pursuing Dr Hussain on charges that the former petroleum minister deprived the state exchequer of Rs462.5bn between 2010 and 2013 — Rs450bn through a fertiliser scam, Rs9.5bn through land fraud and Rs3bn through money laundering.
Dr Hussain, a close aide of former president Asif Ali Zardari, was arrested in August 2015 by Rangers. After three months in preventive detention, the paramilitary force handed him over to police in a case pertaining to sheltering and treating alleged terrorists at his hospitals.
NAB was handed his custody in December 2015 to initiate a graft investigation.
NAB opened multiple inquiries against the former petroleum minister alleging misuse of authority in fraudulent allotment of plots and encroachment of state land for the Dr Ziauddin Hospital/Trust; illegal gains; receiving kickbacks and commissions from a fertiliser cartel for illegal curtailment of gas for exploitative price hikes and black marketing from 2010 to 2012; defrauding the public in the name of running a charity hospital; and laundering money.
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Mar 29, 2017 10:54am
keep this guy in jail as he has done enough damage to pakistan already especially medical education.
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Mar 29, 2017 11:03am
Nothing but compromise over Panama.
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Mar 29, 2017 11:02am
@aleem
Granted bail on medical grounds. Isn't it strange that all suspected criminals become ill the moment they are apprehended. Now that he has been granted bail, he will leave the country
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Mar 29, 2017 11:15am
Ayan, Kazmi, Sharjeel, those Qadir guys and now Dr. Asim; the circle has completed finally. PPP (rather AAZ) has been successful in pressurizing NS to his demands for giving his support to stabilize the democracy!
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Mar 29, 2017 11:12am
Ayan, Sherjeel and now Dr. Asim.. Panama effects.. muk muka at its best.. all the arrests were bargaining tools; nothing more, nothing less
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Mar 29, 2017 11:19am
The nation has suffered a lot and is continuously suffering from this corrupt culture.
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Mar 29, 2017 11:16am
These people bring nothing but shame for the country ...
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Mar 29, 2017 11:23am
Watch the space , all rich corrupts will be let loose . God help poor people who are in jails for stealing peanuts .
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Mar 29, 2017 11:30am
What is 5 million for him?
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Mar 29, 2017 11:30am
guess dubai is nice this time of year ,
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Mar 29, 2017 11:30am
One can get away easily if he is supported by Zardari or Nawaz. Corruption mafia cooperates with each other. We will again vote for these corrupts in 2018, what a shame!
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Mar 29, 2017 11:48am
as i said earlier nothing will change.
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Mar 29, 2017 12:23pm
This is nothing unusual. Happens every day in Pakistan. There is not a single example of a public official spending years in Jail for corruption, tax evasion, money laundering, misappropriation, for taking bribes or other nefarious deeds. You would think Pakistan is full of Saints and Sufis. Yet the country is in the top-ten lists of most corrupt nations.
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Mar 29, 2017 12:30pm
Fruits of "democracy".
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Mar 29, 2017 01:07pm
@aleem : sorry Dear he invested his income legal or illegal in Pakistan for the welfare of illness, in medical education teach and noble profession, also treating wounded patience, but did not take this money to Panama and luxury flats, money laundering are free and in Govt. SC said to NAB chairman your Dept is non-functional. Keep Dr Asim in Jail is illegal, inhuman, his wife suffering from Cancer, have old age mother, Asim is already suffering due to this torture in jail. Panama people are free in country. I support Dr Asim release no victimisation.
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Mar 29, 2017 01:11pm
All corrupts are Angels, only poor are thief's
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Mar 29, 2017 01:36pm
@Zawar Hasan
Every criminal seems to suffer from illness as soon as they get caught. He was suffering when he was stealing from the poor.
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Mar 29, 2017 01:39pm
What else can it do?
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Mar 29, 2017 01:39pm
@aleem : why you r against him, he is running his hospital and university for human development. Not Panama gate, let him free. Produce proof against him.
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Mar 29, 2017 01:58pm
So in essence he is accused of skimming nearly 100 Billion Rupees or over $ 1 Billion? That is still only half of what NS is alleged to have stashed in offshore accounts and properties abroad.
Goes to show the level of greed in public officials. A mere few $ million will not suffice to satisfy their inflated egos. It has to be an amount in the billions.
Makes it sound like Pakistan is one of the richest countries of the world!??
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Mar 29, 2017 02:03pm
This shows how incompetent and not trust-able Pak Civil government is. Then we cry where the natural calamity hitting us. When there is no justice prevailed in the community then how can we expect a system to run firmly.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:15pm
Now Pakistan cannot be salvaged from these corrupt politicians.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:13pm
@Zawar Hasan Your statement compelled me to contemplate that individual like yourself encourages the corrupt politician to loot and get away with bail.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:20pm
Another NRO
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Mar 29, 2017 02:26pm
He is free now. No law for powerful people in Pakistan 1% people.
Only law for 99% people of Pakistan
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Mar 29, 2017 02:28pm
@Zawar Hasan You support Dr, Some support Nawaz, Some support Zardari, No support for normal people
The problem in Pakistan is you get support depending on money, big money big support, no law,
No money no support and all laws apply to you
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Mar 29, 2017 02:26pm
SHAME on all the PPP leaders and followers who consider themselves educated and learned.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:34pm
In Pakistan justice is only for high profile criminals, murderers, and money launderers.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:40pm
Change in the present corrupt system will only come with PTI coming to power till then nothing will change. PTI is the only hope for good and honest governance.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:46pm
@ Zawar Hussain
Suffering from critical deceases doesn't allow any judicial relief from thefting. The whole nation deserve such treatment for their deeds because we are the one supporting ill fated people as our leaders.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:47pm
Democracy is the best revenge............... from the people of Pakistan
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Mar 29, 2017 02:58pm
The law is made for the weaker who always puts in prison and the elite always gets free even he may commit a heinous crime as Doctor Asim and Sharjeel did.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:01pm
Every time someone is accused of a crime however legitimate suddenly there is a medical issue with the person. All the time same story and no one questions this at all. It is better to have no laws so the every does what they have to do to get on top and maybe the good people can forget being good and become winners. The law in Pak is not working. So lets find something different.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:05pm
There is NO JUSTICE!!!
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Mar 29, 2017 03:20pm
loot country in billions and get bail in millions
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Mar 29, 2017 03:29pm
Here we go again no surprise at all!
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Mar 29, 2017 03:32pm
@qasim Kazmi u r so Naive!
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Mar 29, 2017 03:34pm
His name should be placed under Exit Control List as soon as possible otherwise, he will manage to escape from the country with the help of is allies. He must be placed under preventive detention until the final disposal of cases filed against him.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:38pm
@MOHAMMED well said..
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Mar 29, 2017 03:40pm
We have always punished the weak and crowned the looters, he is no exception.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:50pm
What Chaudhary Nisar had said some months back has been proved to be true. He had disclosed that PPP was asking that as part of confidence building measures (CBM), Ayan Ali and Dr. Asim should be released. This is exactly what has happened. Now there is no hurdle in the way of PML-N and PPP patch up.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:04pm
@ISmAIL " Suffering from critical deceases doesn't allow any judicial relief from thefting."He was never proven guilty of anything till now.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:13pm
Exchequers money disgusted?? pity
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Mar 29, 2017 04:13pm
the verdicts of terrorism & corruption is only for the poor. these are never gonna be punished...soon he will be in dire need of a surgery in abroad,the rest will be usual exile ever after...
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Mar 29, 2017 04:12pm
Nobody should be kept in jail without due process of law which is prosecution or else it becomes persecution which in this case it has been Nothing otherwise especially when the government with bureaucracy at any level is so heavily corrupt and none of them is what to talk of jailed even prosecuted.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:16pm
For elite class law is different and for poor, it is different
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Mar 29, 2017 04:16pm
I am astonished to see all the comment.We have to keep faith on justice system. The case against Dr Asim to treat the terrorist is B S. The hospital are subject to treat every patient with out any prejudice.
The case for embezzlement of fund, state should provide the proof to court. This is very easy to say anything against any body.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:18pm
@Abdulla hussain : only time will tell but under the circumstance I agree with you.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:29pm
Its more than evident that only people of Pakistan are meant for going to jails and these politicians are cleared by one way or other.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:37pm
@MOHAMMED : Dr Asim services are more than Panama luxury flats, who are free and Dr Asim in jail. no justification, he deserve bail sir.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:40pm
Just a bail of just Rs 5 million for corruption of almost Rs 500 billion, which is Rs 500,000 million? This is more than all the NRO cases combined.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:42pm
@tariq haider : Sir no, note his services are more than Panama. I am only support for justice for all. That Panama gate free for all running in Pak and Asim without proof in jail. Proof or release
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Mar 29, 2017 04:44pm
@ISmAIL : why for 2 yrs without any proof ? who will return his life 2 yrs pls.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:44pm
Either the govt. knew all along, that Dr. Asim was innocent or it has made a deal with PPP.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:46pm
@Zawar Hasan: Medical services were not from him but, from his noble father in law. B ut his own harm to the nation is an unending and perpetual burden on every single citizen of the country who will continue to pay through his nose for his gas, petroleum and related bills, for all times to come
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Mar 29, 2017 04:44pm
Pakistan Zindabad !!!
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Mar 29, 2017 04:51pm
When public would know if this fellow is 'innocent' or a 'criminal'??
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Mar 29, 2017 05:01pm
Why he is getting bail if he is not innocent and if he is innocent And I doubt that why he is in jail. In pakistan everything is politics no one care about country and self dignity.
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Mar 29, 2017 05:00pm
Let us keep all the chain reactions in view following the safe return of the main actor who is now challenging all, forgetting his threat to "ring every single brick of the nation, with the other", if troubled.
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Mar 29, 2017 05:06pm
What a JOKE.
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Mar 29, 2017 05:08pm
@Zawar Hussain:
Since the given system (in name of democracy) cannot prove them wrong, whether it is Panama, Swiss Banks or Dubai Properties. We as a nation should bow them and apologies.
Pitty on us but why pitty, we deserve this system.
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Mar 29, 2017 05:16pm
It is very simple .....Give n Take........
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Mar 29, 2017 05:18pm
sadly and gradually losing all confidence in our nation's leaders and in good governance or justice... criminals all go free..
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Mar 29, 2017 05:14pm
@Hatim Not Panama, but Military courts..
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Mar 29, 2017 05:16pm
Dr. Asim is a simple and an innocent person.He is victim and revenge of democracy.
RS we miss you a lot
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Mar 29, 2017 05:31pm
@Skeptic Mind Asif Zardari spent Eleven years in jail even without getting a single charged proved. Isn't this strange??
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Mar 29, 2017 05:35pm
Another NRO in making? God save Pakistan.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:15pm
@Make Pakistan great
It's known as Mukh Mukha great sb.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:41pm
corrupt leaders support each other and suck blood of a poor nation ruthlessly.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:43pm
In Pakistan nobody gets punished for corruption and for that matter in case of any wrong doings. It is a drama for public consumption.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:51pm
Has he been declared Not Guilty?
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Mar 29, 2017 06:55pm
@Make Pakistan great
It's known as Mukh Mukha great sb.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:02pm
God bless Pakistan.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:06pm
@Make Pakistan great
It's known as Mukh Mukha great sb.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:07pm
@Dr
No Sir no NRO - that was forced upon us by the USofA to ensure that their brand of democracy prevails.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:18pm
This is a brilliant outcome of Misaq-e-Jamhoriat, a.k.a. "Muk Muka Siasat". Both PMLN and PPP are the flip side of the coin and the name of the coin is "corruption".
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Mar 29, 2017 07:38pm
When is leaving for Dubai?
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Mar 29, 2017 07:37pm
@Habib Spot on sir!
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Mar 29, 2017 07:46pm
No justice
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Mar 29, 2017 07:48pm
@Ali abbas If he is innocent then question is on who arrested him.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:53pm
Mushurraf, haqaqni and now Asim, why all karaciites are being tried only. No question is being raised on powerful elites who have corrupted this country in real sense.
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Mar 29, 2017 08:06pm
@Aamir: Why you forget the ring leader operating from London?
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Mar 29, 2017 08:11pm
Dr. Asim is not innocent. Where is the result of the most Important Panama leaks case? Pakistani nation is waiting and can not forget.
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Mar 29, 2017 08:27pm
Bottom line is, corruption is rewarded in Pakistan.
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Mar 29, 2017 09:06pm
Zardari is abck, Sharjeel Memon is back, DR Asim has been released . Soon Kaka and Murai will also sneak in. Long live new NRO, Long Live Establishment. Poor MQM.
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Mar 29, 2017 09:15pm
For Rs 450bn SCAM, he got bail in Just Rs 0.005 Bn. Where is justice. Do we really have intent to get justice
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Mar 29, 2017 09:24pm
All indicates to a 'deal' having been done
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Mar 29, 2017 09:27pm
Dr. Azim released on bail for than 4 billion corruption,Sarjeel Memon returned from Dubai visit,
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Mar 29, 2017 10:11pm
For a change long awaited drama is over. PML N wanted PPP to teachnthem lesson. One and half year detension with full authority the end result is zero. How can you grant bail when a person is involved in Rs 450 billion scam
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Mar 30, 2017 02:51am
This kind of justice can be witnessed in Pakistan only. Criminal activities would become a norm as long as suspected criminals continue seeking political shelter.
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Mar 30, 2017 03:03am
ThankGod that in Pakistan rich and powerful can still have some life. I was starting to get worried but now I am feeling much relaxed. Good decision by the authorities.
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Mar 30, 2017 06:38am
From where did he get 50 lakhs to pay for his bail ? Why can't he get treated in Pakistan ? Do we lack machines, doctors, nurses, facilities ? What exactly he needs to be treated for that is only available in a foreign country ? What country is he going to and where will he be staying ? 10/10 its either UK, US, or Dubai. After all these three countries tend to harbour all our politicians and their properties.
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Mar 30, 2017 07:22am
Release without sentence???? What a joke!!!!!!
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Mar 30, 2017 02:24pm
he was arrested by rangers, remained in police custody and then NAB got hold of him. still he could not be convicted and was granted bail. great story
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