The Pakistan authorities led by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday added the identify of Opposition chief Shehbaz Sharif, who has been charged with corruption, to the no-fly record, barring him from leaving the nation for medical remedy. Earlier this month, the Lahore High Court granted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz — additionally the youthful brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif — permission to journey overseas as soon as for medical remedy.
After acquiring bail, Shehbaz, 69, was about to fly to London on May 8 when an Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) workforce on the airport stopped him from travelling on the grounds that his identify had been on the provisional nationwide identification record (PNIL), which impose a short lived bar on somebody to depart the nation. Shehbaz was offloaded from Doha-bound flight on May 8.
Addressing a press convention right here on Monday, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed mentioned Shehbaz’s identify was added to the exit management record (ECL) after approval from the federal Cabinet. A particular committee of the Interior Ministry on May 12 had proposed to the Cabinet that Shehbaz must be barred from leaving the nation as a result of corruption circumstances in opposition to him.
Shehbaz wished to go to London for a medical checkup after he was bailed out of jail final month. The inside minister mentioned Shehbaz had not submitted any medical paperwork for travelling overseas or specified the remedy for his sickness.
Last week, Shehbaz had challenged the location of his identify on a journey blacklist and sought one-time permission to go overseas for medical remedy. I’ve been a most cancers affected person and obtained handled in New York and London. I couldn’t get remedy for greater than seven months as I used to be in jail,” the highest PML-N chief mentioned, including in gentle of the medical take a look at report performed in jail, there was a necessity for speedy remedy. Interior minister Ahmed mentioned Shehbaz ”was the guarantor for his brother Nawaz. But as an alternative of bringing him again, he was attempting to flee”.
”If Nawaz Sharif didn’t return then why ought to Shehbaz return? This is a matter of widespread sense,” he mentioned in reply to a query. Sharif has been in London since November 2019 on ”medical grounds”.
The Imran Khan authorities has declared Sharif an absconder and cancelled his passport. Sharif left the nation after the court docket granted him bail within the Al-Azizia Mills corruption case through which he was present process seven years imprisonment in Kot Lakhpat jail Lahore. He was additionally granted four-week bail on medical grounds to have his remedy overseas. The authorities declared him an absconder after he didn’t justify prolonging his keep in London.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry additionally mentioned that Shehbaz’s identify has been added to the no-fly record after approval from the Cabinet and completion of authorized formalities. ”The related file has been up to date on this regard,” he tweeted. Meanwhile, criticising the federal government’s transfer, PML-N chief Azam Nazir Tarar mentioned the social gathering will file a case of contempt of court docket.
”The authorities refused to let him (Shehbaz) go overseas regardless of orders by the Lahore High Court, Tarar mentioned. Several PML-N leaders have been going through corruption circumstances, which they declare, are politically motivated.
On April 23, 2021, Shehbaz walked free from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail after about eight months behind bars within the cash laundering and property past means reference filed by the nation’s anti-graft physique. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had alleged that Shehbaz’s household had property of round PKR 16.5 million until 1990, which elevated to over PKR 7 billion in 2018 which have been disproportionate to his recognized sources of earnings.
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