PPP leader Babar Awan. – File Photo

ISLAMABAD: Senator Babar Awan on Friday denied having discussed President Asif Ali Zardari’s health with Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry during a full court reference given in the honour of Supreme Court’s Justice Saer Ali, DawnNews reported.

According to sources, Awan told Chief Justice Iftikhar that the president fell ill due to the clotting of blood in an artery.

However, he was now feeling better and had been shifted to a private room from the hospital’s  Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Awan was quoted by sources as saying.

Sources further said that Chief Justice Iftikhar expressed his concern over the president’s health.

Later, Awan denied he had made any statement to the chief justice about the president’s health.

Awan moreover said that he had not seen any medical report of the president and had not spoken to any judge regarding his health.

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