Cupboard sub-committee recommends including Shahbaz Sharif to ECL

Addressing a press convention in Islamabad to announce the event on Wednesday, Minister for Inside Shaikh Rasheed stated that Shahbaz might petition for a evaluation of the choice inside 15 days.

He stated the ministry will decide inside 90 days of receiving a request for evaluation, including that the PML-N chief might seem in individual, if he so needs, to make the request.

Talking in better element about Shahbaz’s title being positioned on a “black listing”, Rasheed stated that it was not the case in any respect.

“The court docket’s choice got here with regard to a black listing. Shahbaz Sharif was not on a black listing. He was […] below an order of Might 7, 2021,” he stated, with out elaborating any additional.

The inside minister stated that there are three lists used to stop somebody from travelling overseas: one is the black listing, into which somebody’s title in included by the Passport Workplace; the second is Provincial Identification Listing (PNIL), into which somebody’s title is added by the Federal Investigation Company (FIA); and the third is the Exit Management Listing (ECL) into which the federal cupboard has the authority to place somebody’s title.

He stated right now, on the request of the Nationwide Accountability Bureau, which is pursuing circumstances towards the Opposition chief, a three-member sub-committee unanimously really useful to the cupboard so as to add Shahbaz to the ECL.

Rasheed stated that the inside ministry “obtained no request (for permission to journey)” and “nothing stating medical grounds”, whereas previous requests had cited medical grounds.