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Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has urged media to play positive role and avoid spreading news which create sensationalism.

Talking to a private news channel, she said the government had granted permission to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to go abroad on the basis of illness and humanitarian grounds.

The Special Assistant said the government had allowed him to go abroad for eight weeks to get medical treatment but he did not get admitted in any hospital there.

She said before his going abroad, his doctors in Pakistan had to provide medical reports but since he had gone there, they are just presenting medical certificates.