Pakistan PM Sharif’s Heart Surgery Successful, Daughter Says

Sharif to be transfered to intensive care unit in London
Pakistan leader underwent surgery after previous complications

Nawaz Sharif.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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By Faseeh Mangi and Kamran Haider

May 31, 2016 at 10:28 AM UTC

Updated on

May 31, 2016 at 11:28 AM UTC

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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s open heart surgery operation in London on Tuesday was successful, according to his daughter Maryam.

Sharif “is off the pump now” after the surgery started at 8 a.m. London time and will be shifted to an intensive care unit in the next hour “or so,” she said on Twitter at 12:20 p.m.