–PML-N VP seeks one-time permission to go abroad to look after her ailing father
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday filed a second plea in the Lahore High Court (LHC) for removal of her name from the Exit Control List (ECL).
In the latest petition filed by her lawyers, Muhammad Amjad Pervaiz and Azam Nazeer Tarar, the PML-N vice president is once again seeking a one-time permission to travel abroad for six weeks from the date of departure.
“The respondent government be kindly directed to delete the name of the petitioner from Exit Control List forthwith. Meanwhile, pending the disposal of the instant petition, the petitioner may kindly be granted one-time permission to travel abroad for six weeks from the date of departure,” the petition reads.
According to details, the application filed through Advocate Amjad Pervaiz has made the Interior Ministry, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as respondents in the case.
The petition requests the memorandum dated August 20, 2018, be declared as “illegal, without lawful authority, void ab-initio and of no legal effect in the interest of justice”. Additionally, it is also seeking the award of “any other relief deemed appropriate in the peculiar circumstances of the case”.
The petition has been set for hearing by a two-member bench headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi on December 23 (Monday).
On December 7, Maryam had filed a petition in the LHC seeking the removal of her name from the ECL.
The PML-N VP is currently on bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) case, in which she is a suspect, but her name remains on the no-fly list. Her father, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, travelled to London last month after the government and courts granted him permission to fly abroad on medical grounds.
Subsequently, the court had directed the federal government’s review committee to decide Maryam Nawaz’s application for removal of her name from the ECL within seven days.
Former prime minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who was serving a prison sentence, left the country to receive medical treatment in London last month. Nawaz Sharif reportedly had an immune system disorder and other health problems.
His brother Shehbaz – who also traveled with Nawaz – signed a court document that said: “If at any stage, the federal government has credible information that Nawaz Sharif is living abroad despite his fitness to travel, a representative from Pakistan’s High Commission would have a right to meet with his physician(s) to verify or confirm about his health.”
