Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his best wishes to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif for his open-heart surgery, scheduled for Tuesday in the UK.
Dawn quoted Defence Minister Khawaja Asif as saying Sharif would be hospitalised for a week after the surgery and would return to Pakistan when his doctors allowed it.
Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, said on her official Twitter account that the surgery would be for “perforation of the heart”, a complication from an earlier procedure in 2011.
Dawn also quoted Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the opposition Pakistan People’s Party, urging all Pakistanis to pray for the prime minister.
Sharif has frequently travelled abroad for medical treatment in the past year.
(With inputs from PTI and Reuters)
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