London: Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s wife Begum Kulsoom Nawaz breathed her last at a hospital here after a prolonged battle with throat cancer today.
According to Geo TV, Kulsoom (68), who was under treatment at London’s Harley Street Clinic since June 2014, was placed on life support after her health deteriorated earlier on Tuesday.
Sharif’s brother and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif in a tweet confirmed her death. “My sister-in-law and the wife of Nawaz Sharif sahib is no more amongst us. May God bless her soul,” he tweeted.
Notably, Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar are currently serving jail terms in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. They were convicted by an accountability court in a corruption case in July this year.
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