A Pakistani anti-corruption court has ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhuttoâs husband for failing to attend hearings in trials over charges that he skimmed off kickbacks in awarding government contracts, a lawyer said yesterday. The court issued a warrant for Asif Zardari on Saturday in Rawalpindi, a city near the capital Islamabad, Zardariâs lawyer Farooq Naek said. âWe filed an application that Zardari has had a heart operation and that he cannot come, but the court rejected it,â Naek said.Zardari is at a US hospital after undergoing angioplasty, said Nazir Dhoki, a spokesman for Benazirâs Pakistan Peopleâs Party in which Zardari is a senior figure. The former lawmaker and government minister was released last December from eight years in prison over other corruption cases after the Supreme Court granted him bail. He later traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where Benazir had been living since 1999 to escape arrest at home for corruption cases against her. Benazir was twice elected prime minister in the 1980s and â90s â but both times her government was dismissed over allegations of misrule and corruption.