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Zardari files appeal

Asif Ali Zardari, husband of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, filed a petition in the supreme court today against his conviction on corruption charges.

Zardari and his wife were sentenced by a special accountability court to five years imprisonment last month and asked to pay a fine of 8.6 million dollars for receiving bribes from a Swiss firm for a government contract awarded to it in 1994.

Zardari has been in jail since his wife was dismissed on charges of misrule and corruption in November 1996. Benazir Bhutto, who was abroad when the sentence was passed and is staying there, is likely to file her appeal in the next few days.

UNI

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