No accused can be allowed to leave for treatment abroad: Rashid

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said Friday that no accused would be allowed to leave the country for treatment abroad.

Speaking to Geo News, the information minister said he was astonished to hear that Pervez Musharraf did not have confidence in having his angiography at a hospital of his choice. He added that hundreds of thousands of angiographies’ had been conducted at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) and there had been no complaints.

The former president’s medical report was presented in the special court hearing his treason case. The report stated that Musharraf needed to undergo angiography on an immediate basis, but had not provided his consent to undergo the surgery in Pakistan.