ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi left Sunday for the United States to visit his sister and brother-in-law, both of whom had tested positive for coronavirus and hospitalised. 

The PML-N leader’s brother-in-law Jehanzaib Abbasi is in critical condition and in the hospital for the last five weeks but with slight improvement, a source in his family was quoted in media.

His sister Afshan Abbasi is out of danger, but still in hospital, the source said.