Zardari undergoes 'routine check-up' at hospital.

ISLAMABAD: Incarcerated Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supremo Asif Ali Zardari was sent for a routine check-up at a Rawalpindi hospital, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said on Thursday.

The anti-graft body released a statement following media reports that Zardari, who was taken into custody after the Islamabad High Court rejected his pre-arrest bail plea in the fake bank accounts case on Monday, had been admitted to a hospital after his health took a turn for the worse.

"Zardari is being looked after by the NAB as two medical boards have been constituted through the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and Polyclinic," the statement read.

The communique added that a medical board had been examining him on a daily basis, adding that "his health condition is good and this visit is for routine check-up at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology on the advice of the medical board".

The NAB also asked the media to avoid any...