A fire erupted on Wednesday at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi, where former President Pervez Musharraf was under treatment for a heart conditions, officials have said, adding that the fire was of a minor nature.
“There was a small fire incident at the hospital, but it was extinguished immediately,” a source at Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi told a foreign news agency.
The cause of fire is being probed with supposition of an electrical short circuit starting the inferno.
Musharraf’s counsel Ahmad Raza Kasuri said that the former president was not affected.
“He is safe as the fire incident happened on another floor,” Kasuri told the agency.
Musharraf was admitted to AFIC last week when he complained of heartache on his way to a special court trying him for treason charges.
The medical report presented in the court later diagnosed him with coronary artery disease. Musharraf’s counsels had pleaded the court for allowing the former president to travel abroad for treatment.
Musharraf is due to appear in court on Thursday under the special court order issued last week after examining his medical report.