LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz Sharif faces another setback over the ECL case.
A petition of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president MaryamNawaz seeking removal of her name from the Exit Control List (ECL) couldnot be heard today due to court vacations.
The case was fixed for hearing today in a bench of the Lahore High Courtcomprises of Justice Ali Baqar Najafi and Justice Anwarul Haq Pannu butboth of the judges went to leave in the court’s winter vacations.
The petition will likely to be heard after the court vacations.
The PML-N leader in her petition said that the high court had ordered thefederal cabinet to decide on removing her name from the ECL but it decidednot to remove her name from the no-fly-list.
She pleaded that her father Mian Nawaz Sharif’s health was deterioratingand he was under medical treatment out of the country. “Being his daughterhis care is my responsibility,” the PML-N leader said.
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She pleaded to the court to issue an order for removal of her name from theECL and returning of her passport.
In an earlier hearing, her counsel Amjad Pervez in his arguments had saidthat the name of her client was placed on the ECL without affording her anopportunity of a fair hearing.
The counsel had said the ruling PTI, being a rival of the PML-N, will notallow Maryam to fly to London as some federal ministers are too openlysaying that they will not allow her to go out of the country.
The high court had later adjourned further hearing of the plea tillDecember 26.
