Politics over Sharif's illness deplorable: Marriyum Aurangzeb

Fayyaz Chohan said PML-N was blackmailing government with regard to health of Nawaz Sharif

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb has slammed Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz's Chohan for his remarks that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's medical reports were normal but he was keen to go London.

At an event in Lahore on Tuesday, Chohan had said that the Sharif family and PML-N were blackmailing the government with regard to the ousted PM's health, and wanted relief.

Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Aurangzeb said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led Punjab government had stooped to a new low.

Spokespersons of the 'selected' prime minister, she added, were pretending to be more loyal than the king to hide their incompetence.

The former minister wondered why Sharif was taken to Services Hospital, Lahore and not to a cardiac facility when all four medical boards formed by the provincial government had diagnosed him with heart-related ailments.

The PML-N leader maintained that the Punjab Institute of Cardiology had declared Sharif as a heart patient but the provincial government kept his medical reports secret to make it a political issue.

Such tactics, she alleged, were being carried out to keep the PML-N supremo under stress.

Aurangzeb said that the presence of state-of-the-art hospitals in the province was evidence of the services PML-N rendered to the people. “Nothing could be proved against Nawaz Sharif, therefore incompetent rulers have resorted to such cheap tactics," she added.

The PML-N spokesperson said the government had failed to deliver on its promises, and had hence lost its credibility.

"If anything happens to PML-N chief, Imran Khan, Usman Buzdar and other PTI spokespersons will be held responsible," she warned. “The government’s wish of seeing Nawaz Sharif begging for his treatment will never be fulfilled."

On Tuesday, in view of his medical examination and reports, a medical board had recommended a specialised heart treatment for the former prime minister, who is currently serving a seven-year jail sentence handed down by an accountability court in December last year.