ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Punjab Home Minister Shoukat Javed today said former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had been shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on the recommendation of a medical team and his personal physician.
Talking to Pakistan Television (PTV), he said Nawaz Sharif was being treated by a team of PIMS doctors, who had suggested to shift him to the hospital.
He said the hospital room, where Nawaz Sharif was shifted, had been declared as sub-jail and police personnel had been deployed outside it. Security matters would be the responsibility of the federal police, he added. To a question, he said the duration of Nawaz’s stay at the hospital would be decided by the doctors.
