ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s closefriend Zulfi Bukhari on Monday has appeared in National AccountabilityBureau (NAB) in connection with offshore companies case.
During the hearing, the court handed over a questionnaire to Zulfiregarding income source of his as many as six offshore companies.
Earlier, Islamabad High Court (IHC) had ordered Zulfi Bukhari to faceinvestigation and cooperate with NAB.
Zulfi Bukhari’s lawyer had said that imposing travel ban on his client iscontrary to human rights. He said that Zulfi was first stopped fromtravelling to Saudi Arabia for Umrah on June 11, however, he was latergiven permission for six days.
My client’s name was unlawfully put on ECL, he added.
The lawyer said that NAB cannot bar anyone from traveling abroad on anundergoing inquiry and requested the court to withdraw this decision.
In an interview in Dunya News program “On The Front with Kamran Shahid”,Bukhari said that no Black List law exists in the country, adding that hedidn’t even know his name was on the Black List.
FIA should be asked as to why my name was included in the list, he said.