Shahid Khaqan Abbasi leaves for Washington
Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. File photo
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Secretary General of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi left for Washington by a personal airlines flight on Sunday evening to go to his hospitalised sister and brother-in-law in Pennsylvania, USA.
The family sources told The News that his brother-in-law Jehanzaib Abbasi’s health condition was critical and he was on ventilator for the past five weeks but with slight improvement, while his sister Afshan Abbasi is out of danger, though she remains in hospital.
The couple was tested coronavirus positive. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was placed by the govt on the Exit Control List (ECL) and his lawyer moved the authorities to grant him permission to travel to go to his family abroad. The matter was placed before the cupboard through circulation and it approved one-time waiver. The sources said Khaqan Abbasi has no decide to avail the complete fortnight waiver to remain abroad, and would return range in about 10 days.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi isn't contemplating to go to London for meeting together with his leader former prime minister and Quaid of PML-N, Nawaz Sharif, who is in London and allegedly under treatment for ailments. British government has clamped complete restriction on flights for the country. just in case of acute emergency, the visitor must stay under quarantine for 14-days before entering the country. The strict restrictions are imposed thanks to surge of coronavirus within the uk .
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