President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
, an accountability court on Friday initiated proceedings against him in six corruption references.
The court issued notices to the prosecutor general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as well as the former president. Mr Zardari's five-year-tenure as the president ended on September 8.
Accountability judge Mohammad Bashir summoned the NAB prosecutor on October 14. The notice will be served on Mr Zardari through the NAB prosecution.
According to a court official, the accountability court initiated the proceedings against Mr Zardari in compliance to the Supreme Court judgment passed in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case in December 2009.