Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should be shifted to a hospital from prison after he developed cardiac complications, a media report quoted a special medical board constituted to monitor his health as recommending.

Mr. Sharif, 69, has been serving a seven-year jail term in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail. The suggestion to shift him to a hospital was made to the provincial Home Ministry in a report. According to Express News, Mr. Sharif has developed cardiac complications.

Detailed examination

On January 25, the Punjab provincial government formed the medical board, which conducted a detailed examination on January 30 for two hours in the prison.

Mr. Sharif has been behind the bars since December 24 last year, after an accountability court convicted him in one of the three corruption cases filed under the direction of the Supreme Court.