According to family sources, Prime Minister Shahbaz had a fever just before he was to leave for the airport on Saturday, and his family recommended that he should not fly.
LONDON: According to family sources, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has decided to prolong his stay in London since the stress of his busy schedule has taken a toll on his health.
The Prime Minister, who had only just arrived in London after attending the COP27 summit in Egypt, was planning to go to Pakistan on Friday, but he has decided to delay his trip by one day.
According to sources close to the Sharif family, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif came down with a fever just before he was scheduled to leave for the airport on Saturday. His family urged him not to fly, so he decided to prolong his stay for a second time.
The younger Sharif is expected to remain in London for a further two days, according to sources close to the family.
It is important to note that when the Prime Minister of Pakistan was in London, he met on many occasions with the leader of the PML-N as well as his older brother, Nawaz Sharif. The politics of the nation as well as the selection of a new army leader were the primary topics of discussion during the discussions.
A court in the United Kingdom rejected Prime Minister Shahbaz’s plea for an extended delay in the defamation lawsuit involving the Daily Mail earlier on Friday. This is a significant defeat for PM Shahbaz.
According to British media, Justice Matthew Nicklin heard the case. It was also claimed that the court refused the petitioner, Prime Minister Shahbaz, extra time. This is because PM Shahbaz’s hands are busy with the long march that the PTI is conducting.
In their response to the court, the PM’s counsels said that the Prime Minister was now involved in professional tasks, and they asked that the Prime Minister be given more time to provide his responses. The court approved their request.
According to the accounts in the media, in response to this, Justice Nicklin said that “in his court, the prime minister and the common man are equal.”
If Prime Minister Shahbaz and his son-in-law Ali Imran do not answer to attorneys for the Daily Mail in court, they will be responsible for covering all of the defendant’s legal fees.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom sent a legal notice in 2019 to a British newspaper and the journalist who worked there, David Rose, for accusing the Prime Minister of misappropriating public monies.
“The article is gravely defamatory of PM Shahbaz, including false allegations that he misappropriated UK taxpayers’ money in the form of Department for International Development (DFID) aid intended for the victims of the devastating 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. PM Shahbaz denies these allegations,” the legal document said.
After PM Shahbaz’s attorneys unilaterally appealed to the court to withdraw the stay motion in favor of the trial procedures continuing, Justice Nicklin decided in a London court that PM Shahbaz’s lawyers must deposit £30,000 by November 23.
Although this motion was submitted by PM Shahbaz’s attorneys at Carter-Ruck after he was exonerated in the money-laundering case by a court in Pakistan, the application for stay in the London High Court was lodged far earlier than that.
