Khursheed Shah discharged from Polyclinic hospital

Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Khurshid Shah has on Friday been discharged from Federal Government Services Hospital, popularly known as Polyclinic.

The former opposition leader who has been taken into custody in an assets beyond means case by NAB was brought to the Polyclinic after he complained of high blood pressure and sugar level along with stomach problem Thursday evening.

Sources relayed Shah was discharged from the hospital on the basis of his medical tests whose results were normal. They said his blood pressure, sugar level, and heartbeat were normal as per tests.

The PPP leader, who is in NAB custody on two-day transit remand, would be brought to Sukkur where he will be presented before the accountability court concerned.

Doctors at the hospital declared Khurshid Shah fit to travel to Sukkur and the PPP leader has been moved to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi office.

An Islamabad accountability court had granted two-day transit remand of PPP leader Khursheed Shah yesterday.

He was arrested Wednesday night by a NAB team comprising officials from its Rawalpindi and lSukkur bureaus for allegedly accumulating assets disproportionate to sources of his income.

Following his transit remand, he would be shifted to Sukkur. Shah was arrested from his home in Bani Gala.