LAHORE – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would be meeting former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the Kot Lakhpat jail on Monday.
Bilawal had forwarded a letter to the Punjab home department seeking permission to meet former premier on Saturday.
PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira submitted a request to the home department seeking permission for the meeting.
President PPP Central Punjab Qamar Zaman Kaira, PPP Senator Mustafa Khokhar and Political Secretary to Chairman PPP Jameel Soomro were to accompany Bilawal.
The Punjab government permitted the PPP chief to meet the supreme leader of ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz but on Monday.
The request submitted read as, Bilawal would like to meet Nawaz Sharif to inquire about his health. It would be appreciated if you could kindly manage this visit for today.
Earlier, former premier Nawaz refused once again to be shifted to a hospital from jail.
Yesterday, Sharif’s daughter and PMLN leader Mariyum Nawaz has requested the concerned authorities to set up a medical emergency unit at the Kot Lakhpat jail for ailing Nawaz Sharif.
https://twitter.com/MaryamNSharif/status/1103981202694909953
Today, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif also met his elder brother in jail where Nawaz told Shahbaz that doctors said that they cannot provide him with treatment as they do not have the mandate for it.
The elder Sharif was sent to seven years behind bars in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference by the accountability court in Islamabad in December last year.
Nawaz Sharif was also convicted in the Avenfiled reference by the accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir, however, he was granted bail by the Islamabad High Court.
Sharif’s plea for bail on medical grounds in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference conviction was turned down by the Islamabad High Court last month following which he has moved the Supreme Court.
The three-time prime minister has been relocated between Kot Lakhpat Jail and hospital multiple times on the recommendation of the medical board.
He was moved back to the Kot Lakhpat jail from the Jinnah hospital a few weeks ago.
