Nawaz Sharif may travel to London for further treatment: Report

Pakistan's ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif may travel to London for furr treatment along with his younger bror Shehbaz Sharif, according to a media report. 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. Sharif, 69, was mitted to 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.

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Nawaz Sharif may travel to London for treatment

Shehbaz, President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), largely convinced Sharif to agree to get treatment in London where he has alrey spoken to consultants at one of Harley Street clinics in UK where patients suffering form drop in platelets are treated privately, Geo News reported. Sharif was insisting on getting treatment only in Lahore, report said. Sharif was also vised by Shehbaz to consider staying in London for at least five months for treatment, it said.

"Shehbaz Sharif has told his bror that his health comes before politics and everything else. It is important that Nawaz Sharif is in good health and he should get best possible treatment at best possible facilities," a source was quoted as saying by report.

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Services Hospital's Dr Mehmood Ayaz, who heed panel of doctors that treated former prime minister, has said medical board set up for his treatment would give in writing that Sharif should undergo genetic test from abro, it reported. Sharif was lodged in Kot Lakhpat jail but last month he was sent to custody of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) which is probing Sharif family in Chaudhry Sugar Mills corruption case. On December 24, 2018, an accountability court h sentenced Sharif to seven years in prison in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case and acquitted him in Flagship case.

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On October 25, Lahore High Court granted bail to Sharif, in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case, who was undergoing treatment after being diagsed with an acute immune disorder. On October 29, Islamab High Court suspended Sharif's sentence in Al-Azizia corruption case for eight weeks on medical grounds.

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