Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Monday submitted a petition for contempt of court against six officials for refusing to let him go abroad despite the LHC order. AFP/File
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Monday submitted in the Lahore High Court (LHC) a contempt petition against six officials for barring him from flying abroad despite the court’s order granting him permission to do so.
On May 8, Shehbaz was not allowed to fly to the United Kingdom via Doha from Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport. At the time, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration officials had told him that he could not board the flight as his name was on the stop list Provisional National Identification List (PNIL).
Islamabad: Pakistan’s opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif has been banned from travelling abroad. Shehbaz Sharif’s name had been placed on the exit control list (ECL) after approval from the federal cabinet, Pakistan’s interior ministry said on Monday.
“He [Shehbaz] was the guarantor for his brother Nawaz. But instead of bringing him back, he was trying to flee,” interior minister Sheikh Rasheed said in a press conference in Islamabad. He also said that Shehbaz had not submitted any medical documents for travelling abroad or shared details of the treatment for his ailment.
On May 8, Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of three-time former premier Nawaz Sharif, was not allowed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to leave the country for the United Kingdom via Doha. When he reached the Lahore airport, the immigration officials informed him that he could not board the flight as his name was on the ‘person not in list (PNIL)’.
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Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Monday submitted before the Lahore High Court (LHC) a contempt petition against six officials for barring him from flying abroad despite the court’s order granting him permission to do so.
On May 8, the opposition leader was not allowed to fly to the United Kingdom via Doha from Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport. At the time, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials at the immigration desk had told him that he could not board the flight as his name was on the Provisional National Identification List (PNIL).
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LAHORE: Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday approached the Lahore High Court challenging placement of his name on a travel blacklist/no-fly list and seeking one-time permission to go abroad for medical treatment.
In a petition, filed through advocates Azam Nazir Tarar and Amjad Pervez, the opposition leader, who is on bail in multiple references of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), contends that the government had previously placed him on the ECL. However, the LHC had suspended the government’s act, giving him one-time permission to travel to the United Kingdom for medical check-up in 2019.
Shehbaz states that he recently came to know that his name had been placed on the blacklist at the behest of the present regime. He says the authorities concerned refused to furnish the documents to him on the basis of which his name had been placed in the list.