LHC bench excuses to hear Maryam Nawaz’s case of travelling permission for London
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*LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has filed a plea before the Lahore High Court (LHC) to get back her passport for traveling to London to visit her ailing father Nawaz Sharif besides also performing Umrah in Ramazan. *
In her plea, Maryam Nawaz said that she was arrested by NAB in 2019 in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case and later the LHC approved her bail plea and in return she submitted her passport to the court.
The PML-N leader said that she wanted to travel to London to visit her ailing father however she could not travel owing to absence of her passport.
The court should issue directives to return passport of the applicant and allow her to travel to London, the plea said, Maryam Nawaz further added that she also wanted to perform Umrah during the month of Ramazan.
The court has fixed hearing into the PML-N vice president’s plea today.
In a later development, the division bench of the LHC comprising Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Anwar ul Haq rescued themselves from the proceedings of the case and asked the Chief Justice LHC to fix the hearing before the bench that previously heard the matter.