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Nawaz Sharif has arrived at Lahore airport's Haj Terminal, from where he will travel abroad for medical treatment in an air ambulance that arrived from Doha early morning.
Maryam Nawaz has also accompanied her father to see him off. Nawaz's personal physician Dr Adnan Khan also arrived at the airport with Nawaz, where PML-N President Shehbaz Sharifh had already arrived. Party leaders including Ahsan Iqbal were also present to see off the former prime minister.
A large number of cars of workers and supporters accompanied Nawaz's vehicle when he left Jati Umra for the airport. He was seen off by a large number of supporters and workers, who were gathered outside Jati Umra since morning.
Nawaz will be accompanied abroad by his personal physician Dr Adnan Khan and party president Shehbaz Sharif, Mohammad Irfan and Abidullah Jan. According to immigration sources, Nawaz's medical files have been handed over to the medical team that will be traveling with the former prime minister in the air ambulance. Once Nawaz arrives, doctors will first check his blood sugar level and blood pressure. A complete blood count test will also be carried out.
An intensive care unit and an operation theatre has been set up in the air ambulance and a team of doctors and paramedics will also be on board.
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said in a statement that doctors have completed a medical examination of Nawaz ahead of his departure and he has been administered high doses of steroids and medicines to ensure that his condition remains stable during travel.
The former premier's daughter Maryam Nawaz — who surrendered her passport to secure her release after the Lahore High Court (LHC) granted her bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case earlier this month — will remain in Pakistan.
The development comes a day after the interior ministry issued a notification, allowing the former prime minister to travel abroad for medical treatment, saying that the decision was an "interim arrangement" in the light of the LHC's order, which was passed last week.
In its notification, the ministry reproduced the undertakings provided by Shehbaz Sharif and Nawaz to the LHC in which the terms of their travel and return have been laid out. The former prime minister's name remains on the Exit Control List (ECL).
LHC order
After much deliberation and meetings, the government had agreed to allow Nawaz to travel abroad, with the condition that indemnity bonds amounting to Rs7-7.5 billion be furnished. The PML-N had rejected the condition and had taken the matter to the LHC, which — in a blow to the Centre — ordered the federal government to remove his name from the ECL without any conditions. The verdict was issued after Nawaz signed a court-approved undertaking, saying that he would return to the country within four weeks.
Shehbaz too signed an undertaking, which stated he would "ensure return" of his brother "within four weeks or on certification by doctors that he has regained his health and is fit to return back to Pakistan". Nawaz was allowed to leave the country for a period of four weeks, extendable on the basis of medical reports.
Nawaz, who has been diagnosed with an immune system disorder, was recommended by doctors to go abroad as his condition continued to deteriorate despite treatment. He was rushed to Services hospital from the Kot Lakhpat jail — where he was serving a prison sentence granted by an accountability court that found him guilty of corruption in the Al Azizia — after Dr Khan raised an alarm over the former prime minister's deteriorated health.
Nawaz was granted bail by the Islamabad High Court on humanitarian grounds, in the Al Azizia case earlier this month. He also obtained bail in the ongoing Chaudhry Sugar Mills case, in which he is a suspect, from the LHC.
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