ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the Punjab government to provide best available medical care facilities to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who is imprisoned in the Kot Lakhpat jail Lahore.
Briefing media on cabinet decisions in Islamabad this afternoon, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said the direction by Prime Minister indicates that the PTI government has no personal enmity with any person.
Information Minister said corruption cases against Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari were filed during the tenures of previous governments and incumbent government has nothing to do with these.
He said even the appointments in NAB were made during the previous government adding that the government will not pervert the course of justice or obstruct the work of NAB to benefit any influential personality.
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain referred to the issue of renewing the license of Air Blue which came under consideration in today’s meeting and it was approved without any hesitation.
The Minister said the consensus developed against the Indian aggression in Pakistan is encouraging and the government wants to build on this while taking important decisions in the national interest.
He said the Cabinet decided that strategy regarding action against proscribed organizations will be made in consultation with all parliamentary leaders.
He said all political parties are signatory to National Action Plan of 2014 that includes a provision that soil of Pakistan will not be used against any other country adding that the activities of proscribed organizations are already banned in the country.
The minister said the cabinet took into consideration the landmark achievements and objectives set by the government.
He said Ministry of Law is working on various bills relating to human rights and these will be tabled soon into parliament.
The Minister said Prime Minister emphasized to devise policies to save the poor segments of society from the inflation. In this regard, a poverty alleviation program is being finalized that will be announced soon.
Nawaz Sharif’s Treatment
The treatment of the former premier has become a bone of contention between the government and the opposition party as Nawaz Sharif has refused to be relocated to a hospital.
‘Would prefer honorable death over humiliation,’ Sharif said in an interaction with his family members on Wednesday.
The spokesman for CM Punjab, Dr Shahbaz Gill expressed in a TV show that the according to two senior medics, state of the art facilities related to heart treatment were available in Pakistan.
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‘The government would also write a letter to the Sharif family for assurance that the government would provide best possible medical care,’ the spokesman said as he confirmed that he met the supreme leader of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz today.
Dr Shahbaz Gill also announced that if there are no legal bottlenecks, the government was ready to shift the former premier to any private hospital as well for his treatment.
‘The government would provide fool-proof security to the London-based doctors of the former premier if they are willing to visit Pakistan for treating the former premier,’ Dr Gill elaborated.
