Updated Wednesday, May 14, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Bhutto widower cleared of tax evasion charges: lawyers

KARACHI -- A Pakistani court on Tuesday dropped tax evasion charges against the widower of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, putting an end to a decade-long inquiry, lawyers said. Asif Ali Zardari stood accused of sending eight boxes of valuable artefacts including guns and swords to London in April 1996 without paying customs duty, months before Bhutto’s government was dismissed amid corruption charges. Zardari’s lawyer, Adnan Karim, told AFP that the court had dropped the charges — brought by the government’s anti corruption authorities in 1997 — against Zardari because of a lack of evidence against him.
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