<p class="title">Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday refused to be relocated to a hospital for treatment despite requests by his family members, saying he prefers an "honourable death" over kneeling to "politics being done" by the government in the name of his treatment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sharif, 69, is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case at the Kot Lakhpat Jail since December 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I will not accept the PTI government's disdainful behaviour of pushing me around in the name of medical treatment from one irrelevant hospital to another. I prefer honourable death over kneeling to the Imran Khan government's derogatory exploits," Sharif told his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif at Kot Lakhpat jail here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo has suffered four angina attacks last week, his daughter Maryam Nawaz said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Sharif family is complaining that the government is not providing health facilities to the former premier who has serious health complications.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sharif said the government is doing political victimization "in the name of medical treatment".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The government has not provided any facility for appropriate treatment and is bent on just irritating and bothering to serve its prejudicial designs," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maryam said Sharif had "refused to go to any hospital despite suffering from serious medical condition".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier in a tweet, she said she took her grandmother along with her to convince her father to let the government shift him to a hospital. However, he "declined the request" and told his mother to "go home, pray to God, and leave the rest to the will of the almighty".</p>
<p class="title">Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday refused to be relocated to a hospital for treatment despite requests by his family members, saying he prefers an "honourable death" over kneeling to "politics being done" by the government in the name of his treatment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sharif, 69, is serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case at the Kot Lakhpat Jail since December 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I will not accept the PTI government's disdainful behaviour of pushing me around in the name of medical treatment from one irrelevant hospital to another. I prefer honourable death over kneeling to the Imran Khan government's derogatory exploits," Sharif told his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif at Kot Lakhpat jail here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo has suffered four angina attacks last week, his daughter Maryam Nawaz said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Sharif family is complaining that the government is not providing health facilities to the former premier who has serious health complications.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sharif said the government is doing political victimization "in the name of medical treatment".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The government has not provided any facility for appropriate treatment and is bent on just irritating and bothering to serve its prejudicial designs," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maryam said Sharif had "refused to go to any hospital despite suffering from serious medical condition".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier in a tweet, she said she took her grandmother along with her to convince her father to let the government shift him to a hospital. However, he "declined the request" and told his mother to "go home, pray to God, and leave the rest to the will of the almighty".</p>