Leaked media reports show Nawaz’s disease is life threatening, says Maryam

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif tweeted on Wednesday that leaked medical reports of her father Nawaz Sharif sowed his disease had progressed and is life-threatening.

In her tweet, Maryam said Nawaz Sharif’s official reports from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) were still awaited and she had been running from pillar to post but to no avail.

In an earlier Tweet, Maryam said that the recommendation by government constituted boards of her father needing to be hospitalised was concealed and overlooked.

“What is shocking is that authorities sat on the reports compiled by government constituted boards and the recommendation that he needs to be hospitalised was conveniently concealed and overlooked.”

Nawaz Sharif who has been imprisoned at Kot Lakhpat jail since December 2018 following his conviction in a corruption reference in line with the Supreme Court’s July 2017 verdict, underwent a medical examination at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Tuesday and it was found that his heart is larger than normal.

A few days earlier, a team of doctors had examined Nawaz at the Kot Lakhpat jail. Nawaz’s blood samples had been sent to Jinnah Hospital and it was advised that he be taken to PIC for cardiac tests.