Maryam slammed for 'propagating fake news about father's health'

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led Punjab government on Friday criticised Maryam Nawaz for  propagating false news about the health of her father Nawaz Sharif who is serving a sentence at Kot Lakhpat Jail, reported ARY News.

“Maryam Nawaz is spreading false and fabricated news about her father’s health. Her tweets are nothing beyond blackmailing and gaining political mileage,” said the Punjab government spokesperson.

Responding to the deposed prime minister’s daughter’s tweets, he said Sharif is being provided proper medical facilities, adding that no member of the Sharif family was barred from meeting him inside the prison. “Sharif family can meet Nawaz Sharif whenever it desires except Thursday. A jail doctor gives him a check-up on a daily basis.”

The spokesperson also said a medical board comprising doctors from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) was constituted on the recommendation of Sharif’s personal doctor. “He was moved to the hospital for a medical check-up and ta large medical board has been constituted now to examine his health.”

Earlier this week, in a tweet, Maryam regretted that she had been told that her father was unwell and was being taken to the PIC tomorrow but she and her family had no knowledge of it.

A day earlier, the ousted prime minister lamented that he was being denied the treatment by the incumbent government.

“I am not well. I am suffering with pain in my arm and chest,” he said while speaking to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders who met him inside the prison.

“I am being denied treatment which is my right on humanitarian grounds,” the PML-N supremo said and called on the government to fulfill its responsibility of ensuring his proper treatment.

“In what law, inmates have no right to treatment,” he questioned, maintaining that he stuck to his principled stance as no one could force him to bow down to anybody.