Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that the federal government will bear all the expenses of medical treatment of legend cricketer Hanif Mohammad.
The prime minister issued directives to federal government to pay all the expenses being incurred on Hanif’s treatment.
The prime minister said that the services rendered by Hanif for bringing good name to Pakistan in the field of cricket are meritorious.
Hanif has been suffering from lungs cancer for two and a half years and is under treatment in a hospital at Karachi.
Hanif, also known as little master, scored 3,917 runs in 55 test matches and also played the biggest ever test innings of 337 runs for Pakistan.