Shehbaz Sharif files petition in IHC for suspension of Nawaz's sentence.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking suspension of the seven-year sentence awarded to former premier Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia reference and his release on bail for getting medical treatment either in Pakistan or abroad.

The younger Sharif has pleaded with the court to release his elder brother so he could acquire proper medical treatment.

The health condition of the former prime minister has deteriorated once again as his platelet count significantly dropped to less than 7,000 yesterday.

Sources told the media that the ailing Sharif might be shifted to the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute around 12 noon today for further medical procedure in accordance with recommendation of a medical team examining his health condition.

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif's platelet count recovered to 29,000 a day before after doctors had transfused four mega units of platelets into him in Lahore's Services hospital. The doctors had earlier claimed that Sharif's health was satisfactory but later his platelets dropped again.

A medical board was briefed that health condition of Nawaz Sharif was critical and expert doctors were...