*LAHORE: **Former PM Nawaz Sharif to be barred from leaving Pakistan saysa ** constitutional petition filed in the Lahore High Court.*
*Petition seeking to restrain former prime minister Nawaz Sharif fromflying abroad for medical treatment was filed in the Lahore High Court(LHC) on Monday.*Ad
The petition states that allowing the PML-N supremo to travel abroad wouldamount to meeting out unfair treatment to other ailing inmates.
It apprehends that the former premier will not return home like Pakistan’sformer US ambassador Hussain Haqqani.
The petitioner requests the court to rule that approval to go abroad wouldbe subject to its decision on this petition.
Earlier today, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) passed the buck ofremoving former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s name from the Exit ControlList (ECL) on to the federal government.
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In a rejoinder to the Ministry of Interior’s letter regarding a PML-N pleafor removal of the former premier’s name from the no-fly list, the bureaudemanded that the federal government decide the matter itself.
There are instances of the government removing a person’s name from the ECLon its own, NAB recalled, adding the government is the competent authorityto do so.
Earlier, on Nov 8, the Ministry of Interior received a formal applicationfrom PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif for removal of the former premier’sname from ECL on health grounds and treatment abroad, according to astatement.
