ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s presidential hopeful, PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has offered to donate half the amount to critics able to prove that he has $60 million in Swiss banks. A court in Switzerland barely a fortnight ago freed him of charges of maintaining a secret Swiss Bank account, collected through commissions and money laundering when his wife, Benazir Bhutto, was the country’s prime minister

“It’s all propaganda. I have only $2.3 million in Switzerland,” Zardari said in an interview, blasting the judge who objected to the withdrawal of the case by the Islamabad administration. “The judge retired four years ago, and wrote false judgments after accepting bribes from the Pakistan government,” the PPP leader charged. Zardari, contesting the elections for the presidency of the country, has been accused of corruption but cases against him were withdrawn after alleged compromises with Musharraf in a presidential decree.

About future relationships with Nawaz Sharif, whose party PML(N) broke the alliance with the PPP, Zardari said he was still hopeful of reconciliation. “We will sort it out,” he said hoping that judges would be restored soon which was keeping them separate.