ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday filed a bail plea on medical grounds in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), ARY News reported.

The incarcerated prime minister moved IHC through his counsel Khawaja Haris.

Sharif is currently serving a jail term of 7-years on being proven guilty in Al-Azizia reference filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Chairman NAB, Jail Superintendent Kot Lakhpat Jail and the accountability court have been made respondent in the bail plea, while the recommendations of the specialist doctors hailing from the United Kingdom and the United States have also been attached with the plea.