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Nawaz Sharif’s Open Heart Surgery Successful

by AFP
SS Mirza—AFP

SS Mirza—AFP

Maryam Nawaz confirms stable condition of Pakistan’s prime minister on Twitter.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif successfully underwent open heart surgery in London on Tuesday, his daughter said. It was the 66-year-old premier’s second major cardiac medical procedure in five years.

“Surgery successful by the Grace Of Almighty,” his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif said on Twitter. “All arteries successfully grafted,” she told her nearly two million followers.

She posted a picture of Sharif lying in an intensive care unit bed with his eyes closed and said he was “stable.”

The London hospital where the procedure was carried out was not officially named.

Sharif’s surgery lasted around four hours, according to his daughter’s tweets. He is expected to stay in hospital for around a week to recover before traveling home.

A senior government official told AFP at the weekend that Sharif was paying all expenses from his own pocket and “none of the state expenditures are involved.”

“It may take little over a week for the prime minister to recover and travel back to Pakistan,” the official added.

A statement issued by his office in Islamabad on Saturday said he was being assisted by his secretaries and would be being kept abreast of day-to-day matters.

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