Pakistan’s caretaker Government on Sunday ordered prison authorities to immediately shift former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to the country’s top hospital after his health deteriorated in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Doctors conducted a check-up of Sharif after he complained of chest pain and advised that he immediately be shifted to a coronary care unit (CCU) of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, Geo news reported.
Sharif, 68, is serving a 10-year jail term in a corruption case over his family’s purchase of luxury apartments in london. He has been lodged in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi since July 13. last week, it was reported that Sharif is on the verge of a kidney failure.