LONDON: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has been admitted to the Harley Street Clinic in London for a ‘heart procedure’.
Dr Christopher Baker was likely to tend to the minister, who is facing a reference about assets beyond means filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as per the directions given by the apex court in Panama Papers case on July 28. A hospital source said it is possible Dar will undergo an ‘angioplasty’ to deal with his heart condition. The source said that Dar had been to the clinic several times for ‘detailed checkups’ in the last one week after arriving in London from Pakistan. Dar’s son Ali Dar and the rest of his family members are also in London. The hospital source confirmed that Dar was advised by doctors to extend his stay in London and get treatment on priority basis. Dar’s lawyer had earlier told the accountability court that the minister was not able to ‘stand for more than four minutes’ and requested exemption from appearing for his client. The court ordered NAB to probe the authenticity of the medical report but the NAB prosecutor informed the court that the report was not from a government hospital rather from a private clinic and had not come through proper channel.
Published in Daily Times, November 4th 2017.
