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Zardari accused of colluding in stealing paintings of famous Pak artist | Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been accused of helping to steal paintings of an internationally acclaimed artist, Laila Shahzada. Laila Shahzada's daughter wants the Metropolitan Police to question Zardari during his visit to Britain for stealing 93 paintings from her flat in
Karachi . Shaheen has lodged court papers in Pakistan claiming Zardari colluded
with her brother to steal these paintings, most of which were shipped to London,
were the work of her mother, The Telegraph reports. Shaheen has already asked
Scotland Yard to help recover the paintings, worth up to 300,000 pounds in total,
and now hopes officers will contact Zardari after he flew to London for a meeting
with Prime Minister David Cameron. Shaheen's brother, however, has insisted the
paintings were left to him in their mother's will, and that they are rightfully
his. Zardari has denied any wrongdoing. "The Metropolitan Police should question
Zardari about it while he is in London . My brother took the paintings from the
Karachi flat with the help of Zardari in 1994. No one could have touched him at
the time because they were in power," Shaheen said. According to a petition lodged
by Shaheen at Pakistan 's Supreme Court, Zardari and her brother Sohail, took
the paintings to London and Florida , where the president has a home. Zardari
has claimed in the past that he was simply looking after the paintings for Sohail
Shahzada, but Shaheen is adamant that they should have been shared equally between
the artist's three children, the paper reports. She claimed 53 of the paintings
were destined for Rockwood House in Surrey , a five million pound mansion owned
by Zardari, which was later, sold amid allegations it had been bought with the
proceeds of corruption. |
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