Nawaz couldn’t attend PDM meeting due to ‘severe kidney pain’: Maryam

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been in London since last year for medical treatment, is suffering from severe kidney pain, her daughter and PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz said on Tuesday.

In a tweet from her official handle on Tuesday, Maryam said Nawaz could not attend today’s meeting of the opposition’s anti-government alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), as he was getting treatment for his kidney ailment.

“MNS could not participate in the PDM meeting today because of severe kidney pain that he is being treated for, therefore I am representing him. Would request for prayers,” she wrote on the micro-blogging site.

Nawaz, who has been handed a seven-year jail term on corruption charges, was allowed to fly to London late last year for treatment of his undiagnosed illness that remains a mystery till this day.

At the time he was flown in a chartered air ambulance amid ominous speculations about his health.

He has been declared a proclaimed offender by the court following his refusal to return to Pakistan to serve out his sentence.

Bilawal, Maryam to meet soon

In a separate development, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Maryam held a telephonic conversation earlier in the day and decided to hold a meeting to discuss the matter of alleged rigging in Sunday’s general election in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B).

Maryam said that masses of G-B stand firmly united with the narrative of the opposition parties. Bilawal maintained that despite rigging, the ruling PTI has failed to even secure simple majority in the region.

Both leaders have agreed to devise joint strategy against PTI-led government in the forthcoming meeting.

(With input from DNA)