{"id":300697,"date":"2018-07-23T06:29:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300697"},"modified":"2018-07-23T06:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:29:33","slug":"pakistan-former-pm-nawaz-sharif-on-the-verge-of-kidney-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-former-pm-nawaz-sharif-on-the-verge-of-kidney-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Former PM Nawaz Sharif &#8216;on the verge of Kidney Failure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300698 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nsharif-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/nsharif-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/nsharif-338x420.jpg 338w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/nsharif.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/>Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, who was arrested on July 13 along his daughter is on the &#8220;verge of a kidney failure.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, doctors who examined Sharif in jail said, his blood pressure has climbed up to dangerous level, he is suffering from dehydration, his heartbeat is irregular and he should be taken to the hospital from Adiala Jail, as facilities in the jail\u2019s hospital are not enough to give him better treatment. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, an immediate action is required to transfer him to the hospital so he can recover soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif were\u00a0arrested\u00a0in Lahore on July 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two were convicted on July 6 by a Pakistani accountability court for corrupt practices linked to his family&#8217;s purchase of four London flats and two more corruption cases related to Panama Paper scandal. Both Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, have been to 10 and seven years in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, who was arrested on July 13 along his daughter is on the &#8220;verge of a kidney failure.&#8221; According to the sources, doctors who examined Sharif in jail said, his blood pressure has climbed up to dangerous level, he is suffering from dehydration, his heartbeat is irregular and he should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3615,3823,1476,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300699,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300697\/revisions\/300699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}