Pakistan Supreme Court postpones Zardari graft hearing

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court adjourned a hearing Wednesday that has pitted the judiciary against the government over graft charges centring on President Asif Ali Zardari that could test his authority.

The top court has been locked in a standoff with the administration since last December, when its judges ruled to scrap an amnesty that had allowed Zardari and 8,000 other people to escape possible corruption charges.

The court says that with no amnesty now in place, the government must proceed with all corruption cases, including a multi-million-dollar money laundering case against Zardari in Switzerland that remains on hold.

But the government has so far stalled on the court’s request to send a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen the case and to progress all other corruption cases, and judges Wednesday criticised the government’s inertia.

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