KARACHI: Senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Asad Umar was shifted to a hospital in the wee hours of Thursday, informed his party`s spokesperson.
MPA Khurram Sherzaman said that Umar, after arriving at Karachi`s Jinnah International Airport from Islamabad, was immediately taken to a private hospital as he was facing severe headache due to high blood pressure. However, according to the family sources, Umar, at the present time, is not seriously ill and it is nothing severe.
Asad Umar resigned as CEO ofEngro Corporationon 19 April 2012 and joinedPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He was elected as a Member of theNational Assembly of Pakistanfor NA-48 Islamabad in a 2013 by-election