Daily Times

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif remarked on Sunday that he won’t be able to participate in the electoral campaign for the upcoming general elections due to the health of his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, a private TV channel reported.

While speaking to media in London, he said that his wife is suffering from an infection, adding that she also has developed fever due to the infection. “Kulsoom Nawaz is my wife. I have certain responsibilities towards her.”

When asked about the Daily Mail report titled ‘Penthouse pirates: How the mega-rich former prime minister of Pakistan and his sons have ploughed millions into London’s swankiest addresses to amass a vast property empire’, Nawaz slammed the report as nothing but ‘propaganda’. “Those who engage in propaganda would continue to do so,” he maintained.

The Daily Mail report refers to the Avenfield properties, on which one of the references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the Sharif family is based. On Saturday, Nawaz Sharif had said that he would return to Pakistan after improvement in the condition of his wife who has been under treatment in London for past few months.

Speaking to newsmen outside the Harley Street Clinic, the former premier had said that his wife was struggling for her life. “Can I think of going back to Pakistan under such circumstances when Kulsoom is on ventilator? Do you think I should return to Pakistan leaving behind my wife in such a condition?” he had asked reporters. “[We] will decide about going back to Pakistan once Kulsoom’s health improves in next few days.”

Published in Daily Times, June 25^th 2018.