Former president Asif Ali Zardari admitted to Karachi hospital

KARACHI: (HRNW) Former president and PPP Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has been admitted to a private hospital in Karachi’s Clifton area after his health deteriorated.

According to sources, a medical team, led by Dr Asim Hussain, is examining the former president, adding that a “procedure” will be performed on Zardari’s lungs.

Sources privy to the development added that further tests of the former president will be carried out after the “procedure” is completed. They added that the PPP leader has been ill for more than a month.