Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif has not undergone any medical procedure since 2020, reports Dawn.
Sources privy to the matter revealed to the news outlet that the former prime minister was advised to undergo a fresh cardiac procedure that is not without its risks.
Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid said that Sharif has had ample time for treatment — Covid or no Covid — and “if he has survived for two years on medication alone, he is stable” enough to travel back to Pakistan.
Rashid further points out that while cardiac catheterisation — the procedure that the former premier was scheduled to undergo when he proceeded abroad — could also have been carried out in Pakistan, Sharif had insisted he would prefer to undergo the procedure in the UK, where he had already been operated upon twice.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Attorney-General of Pakistan (AGP) Barrister Khalid Javed Khan has said that there is no evidence to support that Nawaz Sharif’s medical reports are fake.
Speaking on Geo News show ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’, the AGP Javed said they do not want to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Shehbaz Sharif over the subject of Nawaz Sharif’s return. Instead, he said, they want the situation to be settled amicably.
AGP Khalid Javed said that Rashid too said that the medical reports of Nawaz Sharif were not fake.
Earlier the AGP had written a letter to the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif to bring back his brother Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan.
The AGP had instructed Shehbaz to submit Nawaz’s medical reports within the next ten days. In case he fails to do so, contempt of court petition will be filed against Shahbaz.
