Ailing ex-Pak PM Nawaz Sharif's health shows signs of improvement

 Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's health has shown signs of improvement as his platelet count rose to 51,000 even though his blood pressure and sugar level is still high, according to a media report on Friday. 69-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo, who is is mitted in Services Hospital here, was on Thursday examined by a medical board.

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Nawaz Sharif's health improves

Sharif's platelets on Thursday increased from 35,000 to 51,000, showing improvement in his condition, doctors said, according to Dawn. three-time prime minister was rushed to hospital on Monday night from Pakistan's anti-graft body's custody after his platelets dropped to a critically low level of 2,000.

Initially, Sharif was reluctant to go to hospital. However, he agreed to get treated at Services Hospital when his younger bror Shahbaz Sharif, who was specially called re, persued him, daily said, Islamab High Court on Tuesday suspended Sharif's seven-year sentence for eight weeks in a corruption case, paving way for his release on medical grounds.

He h alrey secured bail from Lahore High Court in money laundering case linked to Chaudhry Sugar Mills. Regarding shifting Sharif to London for better treatment, PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal said on Wednesday that first and foremost effort of doctors is to stabilise his condition. "Once his condition is stabilised, question of his going abro will arise and be decided," Iqbal said. Ar PML-N leer and former foreign minister Khwaja Asif said Sharif will decide on his own wher he wants to be treated abro or t.

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