Staff Reporter
Lahore
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz met her father, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, at Services Hospital but she was also admitted in the same hospital on Wednesday night.
Maryum was allowed to meet her father after a request was sent on by PML-N to the Home Department asking for special permission to be granted.
“It is already in your knowledge that Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, former three time prime minister of Pakistan is unwell and has been shifted to Services Hospital for treatment.
“His daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif is an undertrial prisoner at Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore. She has not been able to inquire about the health of her father. It is requested that special permission be granted to (her) to visit her ailing father to inquire about his health,” read the letter. Meanwhile, doctors conducted ultrasound of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s stomach and it was found normal. A number of tests of Maryum Nawaz will also be performed during her stay in the hospital.
Earlier in the day, a request seeking permission to visit Nawaz was rejected by an accountability court in Lahore. Maryam had requested to be granted an hour to meet her father. The PML-N vice president had made the request during court proceedings in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case. During the proceedings, the court asked the NAB investigation officer when a reference would be filed in the case, to which he responded that the reference had entered the final stages of preparation and would be filed after approval from the NAB chairman.
Accountability court judge Chaudhry Ameer Mohammad Khan meanwhile extended the judicial remand of Maryam and her cousin, Yousaf Abbas, till October 25.
