Ailing Sharif to fly to UK for treatment

November 09, 2019 00:47

Pakistan's ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has heeded doctors' advice and given in to his family's request to fly to London for the treatment of his diseases, his daughter Maryam Nawaz said on Friday.

Speaking to the media, she said the family could not risk the 69-year-old PML-N supremo's health and has decided to send him abroad.

Maryam, 46, said she would not accompany her father as her name was still on the Exit Control List (ECL).

"Shehbaz Sharif is looking after all the boarding and lodging of the former premier. After losing my mother last year, my father is my everything now," a distraught Maryam was quoted as saying by the ARY News.

Sharif's wife Kulsoom died of throat cancer in London last year.

Maryam, who was released on bail on Wednesday by the Lahore High Court (LHC), said Sharif himself agreed to get the medical treatment abroad due to his critical health condition.

Sharif was shifted to his Jati Umra Raiwind residence in Lahore on Wednesday after his two-week stay at a Pakistani hospital for treatment of multiple diseases.

He was admitted to the Services Hospital in Lahore on October 22 from Pakistan's anti-graft body's custody after his platelets dropped to a critical low level of 2,000. -- PTI

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