Out on bail Maryam regrets being unable to accompany Nawaz abroad.

LAHORE -- Two days after the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was discharged from Services Hospital in Lahore, his daughter, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Friday regretted the circumstances requiring her to stay in Pakistan if her father travels abroad for a medical check-up.

'It would be very difficult if I am unable to accompany my father abroad for medical treatment,' Maryam said, adding' 'Mian Sahib should 'certainly' go if his health requires it.'

Following an appearance before an accountability court in Lahore regarding the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) case, Maryam said that her uncle, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, had been managing the issue of taking the former premier abroad.

'I obviously can't travel immediately because the court has my passport,' she said, referring to the Lahore High Court's (LHC) directive for her to surrender her passport in order to secure her release on bail in the CSM case.

A Sharif family source on Thursday claimed that Nawaz had agreed to go to London.

'Nawaz Sharif has finally agreed to go to London after the doctors told him categorically that they had already exhausted all medical treatment [options] available in Pakistan and going abroad is the only option left,' the source had said.

The source further said that Nawaz might leave for London this week if his name is removed from the Exit Control List.

Speaking to reporters today, Maryam said: 'It is very difficult [for me] that Mian sahib goes abroad for treatment and I am unable to go. It will become very difficult for me because I worry a lot.'

She added, however, that it was a matter of his life and he should avail treatment wherever in the world it is available.

Earlier this week, former prime minister Nawaz was shifted to an intensive care unit (ICU) set up at his Jati Umra residence from the Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), where he was admitted on Oct 22 after his personal physician Dr Adnan Khan raised an alarm about his deteriorating health.

On Oct 29, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had suspended the sentence of the former premier on medical grounds for eight weeks in the Al...