Zardari denies asking for 'BB's jewellery'

Replying to a media query about a letter purportedly written by PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari to unnamed Swiss authorities through a Swiss lawyer, seeking return of a jewellery allegedly belonging to Benazir Bhutto, spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar has recalled that the jeweller, when summoned by the Swiss Magistrate, had already deposed at the time denying that the jewellery belonged to her. "Since the ownership of the jewellery has already been denied by the jeweller himself before the magistrate it is strange and illogical to assert that Mr Asif Ali Zardari has asked for the return of the jewellery that neither belongs to him nor to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto," Babar said in a statement. Furthermore, he said that for the past several years since the case ended there has been no Swiss lawyer of Zardari in Switzerland through whom he is alleged to have approached unnamed Swiss authorities.