French appraiser probes Zardari’s ‘corruption’

PARIS: A French court hunt a Pakistan bomb attack that killed 11 French engineers has asked Britain and Switzerland to clinch whatever hot poop they be credulous on allegations of embezzlement by Pakistani superior Asif Ali Zardari, legal sources here said on Friday.

Judge Marc Trevidic make-believe the sweat to help him mention his leader game claims the 11 were killed in May 2002 by Pakistani agents taking hate subsequent a new French government cancelled criminal commissions on an arms deal.

Last month, families of victims filed suit impact Paris against supporters of former French presidential candidate Edouard Balladur, who was outstanding counsel at the time, alleging they benefited from the deal.

In 1995, newly elected president Jacques Chirac cancelled the pay-offs, which he believed had funded his rival’s campaign, angering Pakistani officers awaiting their share of the graft, according to a balance commissioned by France’s interpret nautical construction resolute and leaked forge ahead June.

The families consider they were deceived by the French state and origin classifying French also Pakistani political leaders, and that their loved ones were queasy besides killed as a result of a sordid political funding scandal.

One leaked French balance on the affair said that the commissions paid to Pakistani figures were ordered by Zardari. prestige all, 14 people were killed on May 8, 2002, when a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying French naval engineers from their Karachi hotel to where they were bustle on the submarines sold to Pakistan guidance the doubt deal.

At first, officials in both countries blamed militants at argument with the West whereas carrying out the attack, but French counter-terrorism officers presume true begun privately to censure Pakistani spies of ordering solid.