Pakistan’s Opposition chief Shahbaz Sharif, who was allowed by the Lahore High Court to journey overseas for medical remedy, was on Saturday barred from flying to the UK after the nation’s high investigation company allegedly positioned his title on ‘another list’, stopping him from leaving, his get together spokesperson mentioned.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted Shahbaz a conditional permission to journey to the UK for medical remedy from May 8 to July 3. He was all set to affix his self-exiled elder brother and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in London.
However, Shahbaz, 69, was reportedly not allowed to fly from the Lahore airport to the United Kingdom through Qatar on Saturday morning after the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) allegedly positioned his title on one other listing, stopping him from leaving the nation, Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb was quoted as saying by Dawn News.
“When Shahbaz Sharif got here to the airport in the present day, FIA officers stopped him and mentioned he couldn’t journey as a result of there was one other listing, she mentioned, including that in accordance with the FIA, the system had not been up to date but after the court docket order.
Aurangzeb mentioned that two FIA officers have been current in court docket when the LHC issued an order permitting Shahbaz to journey overseas. The court docket order additionally talked about the flight quantity the PML-N president would take to fly to Qatar. FIA immigration officers reportedly offloaded the Opposition chief from a flight to Doha after his title was discovered to be current on the blacklist, which prevents him from leaving the nation. After being denied permission to journey, Shahbaz returned to his residence in Model Town, the Express Tribune reported.
Speaking to an immigration official on the airport, PML-N leaders knowledgeable that Shahbaz has been granted conditional permission to journey overseas for medical remedy by the LHC, to which the official responded that he was barred from leaving the nation till the clearance on the immigration system is up to date, the report added.
According to FIA immigration officers, his title has not but been eliminated from the blacklist by the Interior Ministry.
“No clearance was issued within the system, he (Shahbaz Sharif) will likely be allowed to board the airplane as soon as the title is cleared,” the official maintained.
Shahbaz was scheduled to leave Lahore for Doha on Saturday morning, after which he was to leave for London after a 10-day quarantine in Qatar
Earlier on Thursday Shahbaz had challenged the placement of his name on a travel blacklist and sought one-time permission to go abroad for medical treatment. “I have been a cancer patient and got treated in New York and London. I could not get treatment for more than seven months as I was in jail,” he mentioned, including in mild of the medical check report carried out in jail, there was a necessity for instant remedy.
The Imran Khan authorities reacted strongly to the court docket’s choice to grant permission to Shahbaz to journey overseas.
Meanwhile, Information Minister Chaudhry mentioned that the FIA director normal held the authority so as to add or take away an individual’s title from the blacklist. “Shahbaz’s legal professionals haven’t submitted any request to the DG FIA to take away (Shahbaz’s title) from the blacklist as per the court docket’s choice. The report can’t be modified on the premise of verbal talks,” Chaudhry said.
On April 23, 2021, Shahbaz Sharif walked free from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail after about eight months behind bars in the money laundering and assets beyond means reference filed by the country’s anti-graft body. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had alleged that Shahbaz’s family had assets of around PKR16.5 million till 1990, which increased to over PKR7 billion in 2018 which were disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Nawaz Sharif has been in London since November 2019 on ‘medical grounds.’ The Imran Khan government has declared Sharif an absconder and cancelled his passport. Sharif left the country after the court granted him bail in the Al-Azizia Mills corruption case in which he was undergoing seven years imprisonment in Kot Lakhpat jail Lahore.
He was also granted four-week bail on medical grounds to have his treatment abroad. The government declared him an absconder after he failed to justify prolonging his stay in London.
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