PM aide Shahbaz Gill doubts authenticity of Nawaz's medical reports

PML-N supremo was diagnosed with acute ITP

KARACHI:

Shahbaz Gill, PM’s aide on political communication, said in a tweet on Saturday that he believed from the very first day that the PML-N supremo did not fall ill and was healthy.

He also shared a link of a website, saying “see for yourself what ETDA does and how alleged fraud was attempted”.

میں پہلے دن سے کہ رہا ہوں کہ نواز شریف صاحب بیمار نہیں ہے وہ صحتمند ہیں اور اللہ ان کو لمبی زندگی اور صحت دے۔ میری پوزیشن پہلے بھی یہی تھی آج بھی۔ EDTA کیا کرتا ہے خود ہی دیکھ لیں- یہ ہے طریقہ جس سے مبیعنہ طور پر فراڈ کی کوشش کی گئی ۔ https://t.co/9fzLHcsDS0

— Dr. Shahbaz GiLL (@SHABAZGIL) August 22, 2020

His tweet came in the wake of renewed attempts by the ruling party to repatriate the ousted premier, who was allowed to fly to London on recommendations of a government medical board in November last year after his health deteriorated to a dangerous level.

PM’s accountability adviser Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Saturday claimed that the convicted former premier was allowed to leave the country subject to certain conditions but none of them had been met.

“He [Nawaz] was granted permission to leave the country for medical treatment, provided that he would return within a stipulated time period,” Akbar said at a news conference in Lahore.

The ailing politician was diagnosed with acute ITP, or immune thrombocytopenic purpura, a bleeding disorder in which the immune system destroys platelets.