 "Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoom dies at 68 in London after months of battle with cancer")
London: Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, passed away in a hospital in London on Tuesday after months of battle with cancer, the family said. She is survived by her husband and four children, Hassan, Hussain, Maryam and Asma. Kulsoom was placed on life support earlier in the day as her health deteriorated, Geo News reported. The three-time former first lady was diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma in August, 2017 and had been since then in London where she underwent multiple surgeries. [caption id=“attachment_4051053” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Kulsoom Nawaz. Getty Images[/caption] She was elected from Lahore’s NA-120 constituency in a by-election after her husband was disqualified from the seat by the Supreme Court in 2017, but left for Britain even before she could start campaigning. In her absence, Maryam ran her campaign. Due to her illness, Kulsoom was unable to return and formally take oath as a member of the National Assembly. Born in 1950 in Lahore to a Kashmiri family, Kulsoom attended Islamia College and graduated from the Forman Christian College in Lahore. She received a Master’s degree in Urdu from Punjab University in 1970.
The three-time former first lady was diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma in August, 2017 and had been since then in London where she underwent multiple surgeries.
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