{"id":43980,"date":"2024-08-06T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=43980"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:56:13","slug":"asad-umar-shifted-to-hospital-after-his-health-worsened-in-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/asad-umar-shifted-to-hospital-after-his-health-worsened-in-courtroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Asad Umar shifted to hospital after his health worsened in courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Former Finance Minister and PTI leader <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/asad-umar-shifted-to-karachi-hospital-following-sudden-illness\/\">Asad Umar<\/a> was shifted to a hospital after his health worsened during his appearance at an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>According to Umar&#8217;s lawyer, he felt heart-related suffocation while present in the courtroom on Tuesday. Umar was swiftly carried by lawyers and court staff from the courtroom to a vehicle outside the ATC gate.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology accompanied by PTI leader Zain Qureshi. The former minister&#8217;s condition was reported as stable, with doctors stating he had experienced low blood pressure. His ECG test results were reportedly normal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, Asad Umar was taken to a hospital in Karachi due to back issues. He was moved to the hospital via Sindh Rescue Ambulance Service 1122 which he lauded as it reached within 5 minutes after receiving a call.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been facing several charges, including vandalism and the cipher case, related to the May 9 violence. He had stepped down from the post of PTI secretary general around two weeks after the riots on May 9, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Former Finance Minister and PTI leader Asad Umar was shifted to a hospital after his health worsened during his appearance at an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore. According to Umar&#8217;s lawyer, he felt heart-related suffocation while present in the courtroom on Tuesday. Umar was swiftly carried by lawyers and court staff from the courtroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43990,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43980\/revisions\/43990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}