PAKISTAN'S former president and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari was admitted to a private hospital in Karachi on Friday (2) after he felt unwell, a senior party leader said.
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Munawar Anjum said Zardari, who arrived in Karachi from Islamabad, was rushed to the hospital on the advice of his doctors.
“Doctors have taken his blood tests and started treatment," he said.
Zardari, 65, fell ill due to the “exertion and exhaustion” from travelling for court appearances and the budget session of the National Assembly, The Express Tribune newspaper reported, citing sources.
PPP co-chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his sisters Bhaktawar and Aseefa reached Karachi to look after their father, Anjum said.
Zardari has been attending parliament sessions in Islamabad since Monday (28).
In October last year, the former president was admitted to a private hospital due to low sugar levels.
Zardari, who is facing multiple corruption cases, was released from jail in December 2019 after the Islamabad High Court approved his bail on medical grounds.
An accountability court in Islamabad last year indicted Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and others in a mega-money laundering case.
Zardari is the husband of Pakistan's first woman prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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