{"id":31651,"date":"2014-01-10T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31651"},"modified":"2014-01-10T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T06:16:16","slug":"zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing","title":{"rendered":"Zardari faces graft cases, court adjourns hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing\/dd-24\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31652\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing\/dd-24\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/dd1.jpg?fit=284%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"284,178\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/dd1.jpg?fit=150%2C94&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/dd1.jpg?fit=284%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31652 alignright\" alt=\"dd\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dd1-150x94.jpg?resize=150%2C94&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/dd1.jpg?resize=150%2C94&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/dd1.jpg?w=284&amp;ssl=1 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Pakistan&#8217;s former president Asif Ali Zardari Thursday appeared before an anti-corruption court here for the first time since he retired in September last year, but the court adjourned the hearing until Jan 18. The former president appeared before Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Bashir<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>amid strict security measures with a heavy deployment of policemen around the court premises, the Dawn daily reported.Zardari&#8217;s chief defence counsel Farooq H. Naek said he would file an application for exempting Zardari from personally appearing in the court.<\/p>\n<p>The National Accountability Bureau ordered reopening of corruption cases against the former president in October, a few weeks after he stepped down on completion of five-year persidential term.<\/p>\n<p>Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the main opposition Pakistan People&#8217;s Party, never appeared before the court when he held office due to his immunity as the president and security issues.<\/p>\n<p>He faces cases related to favouritism, misuse of power during his party&#8217;s governance when his slain wife Benazir Bhutto was the\u00a0 prime minister, and allegedly receiving kickbacks in awards of government contracts.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s former president Asif Ali Zardari Thursday appeared before an anti-corruption court here for the first time since he retired in September last year, but the court adjourned the hearing until Jan 18. The former president appeared before Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Bashir amid strict security measures with a heavy deployment of policemen around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":31652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3384,27487,47765,27486,47774,47775,23371,3383,27488],"class_list":["post-31651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-asif-ali-zardari","tag-chief-defence-counsel-farooq-h-naek","tag-news","tag-pakistans-former-president-asif-ali-zardari","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news","tag-zardari","tag-zardari-faces-graft-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zardari faces graft cases, court adjourns hearing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zardari faces graft cases, court adjourns hearing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zardari faces graft cases, court adjourns hearing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zardari faces graft cases, court adjourns hearing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-10T06:16:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-01-10T06:16:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/dd1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"178\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5bed6309aad9141bf373167e6730d0fc\"},\"headline\":\"Zardari faces graft cases, court adjourns hearing\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-10T06:16:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-01-10T06:16:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing\"},\"wordCount\":187,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/zardari-faces-graft-cases-court-adjourns-hearing#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2014\\\/01\\\/dd1.jpg?fit=284%2C178&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Asif Ali Zardari\",\"chief defence counsel Farooq H. 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