Pakistan court drops Bhutto husband graft cases

PAKISTAN: A Pakistani anti-corruption court Wednesday officially terminated five cases against the husband of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and released his frozen assets, his lawyer said.

The ruling follows a government amnesty granted to Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari in October, which dropped cases against the pair stemming from her two terms as prime minister and paved the way for her return from exile.

Zardari, 51, took over as head of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party after she was slain at a political rally in December. The party emerged as the largest single grouping after elections in February.

"Allah has differentiated truth from lies and justice has been done," Zardari's lawyer, Farooq Naik, told reporters outside the court in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad. Islamabad, Wednesday, AFP