LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to leave for London on Tuesday for the medical treatment.
He will be leaving for London on an air ambulance that will arrive in Lahore from Qatar the same day. The air ambulance will arrive with staff and facilities for Nawaz.
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According to his party’s spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, former premier will fly tomorrow, even though his name has not been removed from the Exit Control List yet.
Nawaz was earlier allowed by the Lahore High Court (LHC) to travel abroad by turning down the government conditions.
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The LHC allowed Nawaz to travel abroad without submitting the Rs7 billion in surety bonds that the government had asked for. The LHC had directed the interior ministry to remove his name from the ECL.
On 13th November, the government agreed to let Nawaz travel abroad for medical treatment, for a four-week period, provided that he submits a surety bond worth Rs7 billion. However, Nawaz rejected the government’s conditional offer to travel abroad.
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