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Jailed Former Pakistani PM Sharif Hospitalized

by VOA News

   The jailed former prime minister of Pakistan has been hospitalized
   after suffering heart problems.

   Nawaz Sharif was moved from his cell to a hospital in Islamabad Sunday
   after a routine cardiogram performed on the 69-year-old showed some
   irregularities, Shaukat Javed, home minister of Punjab province, said.

   He is in stable condition in the hospital's cardiac center.

   Sharif and his daughter Maryam were arrested on July 13 almost
   immediately after they returned to Pakistan from London ahead of the
   country's July 25 election.

   Sharif had been sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison on
   corruption charges. His daughter, and political heir, was sentenced to
   seven years in the same case over the purchase of luxury apartments in
   London in the 1990s.

   In the election last week, former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan
   Terheek-e-Insaf (PTI) party trounced Sharif's Pakistan Muslim
   League-Nawaz (PML-N).