ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz will leave for London on Wednesday (today), said a spokesperson of the Sharif family.
Kulsoom Nawaz is critically ill and admitted to a hospital since the past few days, said the spokesperson.”My mother is hospitalised again. Please remember her in your special prayers,” wrote Maryam on his Twitter account.”I know prayers can do wonders. Allah answers prayers. Thank you.”
Kulsoom Nawaz has been undergoing chemotherapy in London after being diagnosed with lymphoma – a cancer of the lymph nodes in the middle of last year. She has underwent a total of six chemotherapy sessions and three surgeries during the past seven months. On March 6, doctors treating the former prime minister’s wife had noted the reappearance of tumour nodes.
The former premier’s wife was diagnosed with the disease by British doctors on August 22, 2017.Kulsoom had left for London unexpectedly on August 17 for a medical checkup – on the day when her nomination papers for the NA-120 constituency were accepted amid much political hype. Despite being away from the country, she won the by-election after Sharif’s disqualification from public office in the Panama Papers case.
Published in Daily Times, April 18th 2018.
