PM Imran will be responsible if anything happens to Nawaz: Ahsan Iqbal

The PML-N leader said officials threw the medical reports of the party supremo into the bin.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader and former federal minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will be responsible if happens to incarcerated former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said that Nawaz Sharif s platelets were less than 20,000 and it could have led to internal bleeding but by the prayers of the people, it did not happen.

Sharif’s personal physician had informed about his platelets report yesterday, he said.

The PML-N leader went on to say that the officials threw the medical reports of the party supremo into the bin, adding that PM Imran would be responsible if anything happens to Sharif.

Ahsan Iqbal said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has politicised health issues of political opponents, adding that the country’s economy country has ruined due to bad policies of the rulers. “The PTI government has proved to be a nine-eleven for the economy," Iqbal remarked.

Ahsan Iqbal also raised concern on the condition of Maryam Nawaz adding that the government is not taking the matter seriously.

Nawaz Sharif, who was convicted on corruption charges, was rushed to hospital from the prison after recent blood tests raised doctors’ concerns, his physician late on Monday.

Doctors initially believed Sharif had contracted dengue fever, which is rampant in Pakistan, but on Tuesday the government issued a statement saying his concerningly low platelet count may have been the results of medication he was taking.

Sharif was sentenced to 12 years in prison on corruption charges and seven years on a separate money laundering charge. He is also under investigation on other corruption allegations. Sharif has appealed the two convictions, insisting on his innocence.

The National Accountability Bureau, which oversees investigations into corruption allegations, had questioned Sharif for the past week on corruption charges in connection with a sugar mill in which he held controlling shares while serving as prime minister.

The charges also allege that other members of his family, including his daughter Maryam Nawaz, retained shares. Sharif’s daughter is appealing an earlier conviction on corruption charges against her. She was sentenced to seven years for her involvement in the purchase of apartments in London but is now out on bail during the appeal process.