*ISLAMABAD – **Maryam Nawaz Sharif makes important statement about formerPM Nawaz Sharif health and cardiac surgery.*
*Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s heart surgery has been postponed dueto the coronavirus risk, his daughter Maryam Nawaz announced on Friday viaTwitter.*
She said that doctors had declared the former premier a high risk patient,which is why they were taking these precautions.
His treatment is, however, continuing, she wrote, asking people to pray forhim.
Nawaz, a three-time premier and founder of the PML-N, is currently inLondon where he is undergoing treatment. He obtained bail and travelledabroad for treatment in 2019 and has yet to return.
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Last week, NAB issued warrants for his arrest in a case involving JangGroup Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman.
He is accused of giving concessions to Rehman on 54 plots in Lahore’s JoharTown in 1986, when he was Punjab’s chief minister. NAB has also filed apetition in an accountability court to declare him an absconder in the case.
