Jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was on Sunday admitted to the country’s top hospital on the orders of Pakistan’s caretaker government, after his health deteriorated in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
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.
Following his complaint of chest pain, Sharif has been admitted in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, on the advice of the doctors attending him.
PIMS spokesman Wasim Khwaja said Mr Sharif was in the hospital’s Cardiac Centre and his condition is stable.
The decision to shift Sharif to hospital was taken by the Punjab government which has administrative control of the Adiala jail.
Sixty-eight year old Sharif is serving a 10-year jail term in a corruption case over his family’s purchase of luxury apartments in London.
