The mother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and former Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has passed away.
According to the family, Begum Shamim Akhtar was ill for a long time.
PML-N spokesperson Ataullah Tarar announced the death of Begum Shamim Akhtar on social networking site Twitter.
Begum Shamim Akhtar was staying in London for treatment. It should be noted that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is present in London, while the younger son of the late Shamim Akhtar Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is in jail.
Maryam Nawaz Sharif was informed about the death of her grandmother during the PDM meeting.
PML-N leader Azmi Bukhari has said that Begum Shamim will be buried in the ancestral graveyard of Jatiya Amira, however, details will be informed later.
It should be noted that Begum Shamim's husband died in 2004. Mian Muhammad Sharif, the head of the Sharif family, died on Friday night, October 29, 2004, in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.