Zardari's physical remand extended by 11 days.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari's physical remand was extended by 11 days on Friday and he will now be presented in the accountability court on July 2.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) sought a 14-day extension but the request was turned down by the accountability court.

NAB was given 11-day physical remand of Zardari on June 11, a day after the former president was arrested in the fake accounts case.

Zardari was arrested by NAB earlier this month after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) recalled the pre-arrest bail granted to him and his sister Faryal Talpur in the fake accounts case.

The co-chairman of the PPP was taken into NAB custody from his residence in the federal capital and was taken to the NAB Rawalpindi office.

Production orders for Asif Zardari, Saad Rafique issued

There was then much controversy over the production orders for Zardari, who is a Member of National Assembly (MNA) from NA-213, Shaheed Benazirabad-I.

For over a week, NA Speaker Asad Qaiser resisted demands of the PPP and other opposition members to issue the former president's production orders.

He finally gave in late night on June 19 and issued production orders for Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique.

In his first appearance in the assembly on Thursday, Zardari said the government and opposition should sit together to devise an economic policy to move Pakistan forward, which should also be made compulsory for all future governments.

The fake accounts saga

Information regarding the fake accounts came to the fore when an intelligence agency picked up a prominent money changer in an unrelated case. In December 2015, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) began a discreet investigation into certain bank accounts through which multi-billion rupee transactions have been made.

The probe was initially shelved but resumed almost a year and a half...

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