The Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Tuesday said that Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s cardiac surgery was successful and he was shifted from the operation room.
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif waves as he leaves after attending the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 23, 2016.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return to Pakistan, following his open-heart surgery in London, before the end of Ramazan, said Maryam Nawaz while talking exclusively to DawnNews.
But at 4.17 p.m. – about four hours after the surgery began at the private clinic in central London, she confirmed that doctors had completed the operation successfully. “I entrusted him to Allah”, Maryam Nawaz said in an earlier tweet.
Speaking to a select group of journalists at his Bani Gala residence, the PTI chairman censured the government’s strategy in the wake of the prime minister’s illness. The citizens of Pakistan offered special prayers for his speedy recovery and sacrificed goats and cows across the country.
Turkish president Tayyab Erdogan called Nawaz Sharif this morning and expressed his hope for his early recovery.
On Monday, Sharif telephoned his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, thanking him for his wishes for a quick recovery, the Pakistani Foreign Office said in a statement.
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Mr Sharif had gone to London on May 22 for a regular medical checkup but was diagnosed with a heart complication by doctors who suggested surgery. Find us on Facebook too!
