The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, Islamabad

A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the husband of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer said. The move could ease tensions between U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf and Bhutto's party, which is now led by her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, and won last month's parliamentary elections. An anti-corruption court acquitted Zardari on Friday in the so-called "BMW case" relating to the import of a German limousine. The court had already dismissed six other graft cases against Zardari under an order passed by Musharraf last year that was supposed to foster political reconciliation. "After a struggle of 11 years, the state has failed to prove any case against Mr. Zardari," said his attorney, Farooq Naek. "After a long darkness in the tunnel, the light has come," he told reporters outside the anti-corruption court in Rawalpindi, a city that neighbords the capital Islamabad.