The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday further granted time to provincial law officer to verify fact that if there any proposed treatment for ex-Senator Asif Ali Zardari is available in the Ziauddin Hospital here on or such treatment was available at Islamabad also.
The court was hearing the application of spouse of former premier Benazir Bhutto against his shifting to Islamabad and seeking direction to trial court to keep him in Karachi for treatment.
Assistant Advocate General Habib Ahmed on Wednesday told the court that he received letter from the Sindh home department which he is going to place on record but complete information was not furnished in it. He requested further time to get information in view of court order in respect of Asif's treatment and sought adjournment.
Asifs' counsel Farooq H. Naik and Akhtar Hussain, however, did not raise objection on adjournment.
SHC's division bench comprising Justice Wahid Bux Brohi and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaffery put off the hearing on request of the AAG and in meantime continued the interim orders passed earlier asking the Sindh government not to shift Asif Zardari from Karachi till August 31, 2004.