LONDON, 31 MAY (DNA) –   Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif successfully underwent open heart surgery at a private hospital in central London on Tuesday, the premier’s second cardiac procedure in five years, his family and hospital officials confirmed.

“Surgery successful by The Grace Of Almighty. The Prime Minister is off the pump now. Will be shifted to ICU in the next 60 mins or so,” Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz said in tweets sent out on Twitter.

Minutes earlier, she said that the procedure of grafting all arteries had been completed successfully, and that the operation may take another 60 to 90 minutes.

But at 4:17 PM (1217 UK time), about four hours after the surgery begun at the private clinic in central London, she confirmed that doctors had completed the operation successfully. DNA