Justice M Javed Buttar of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday allowed ex-federal minister Ahmad Nukhtar to go abroad for 10 days on a petition seeking exclusion of his name from Exit Control List (ECL).
Deputy Attorney General Sher Zaman Khan, opposing the plea, said that the petitioner's name was placed on ECL on the directions of the NAB and the petitioner should approach the trial court in this regard as a reference was pending with it.
The DAG informed the court that the petitioner was acquitted in a reference by the Accountability Court Karachi while its appeal was pending with the Sindh High Court.
The DAG said that an inquiry of huge corruption was; also pending with the FIA Rawalpindi since 1998.
The petitioner's counsel said that the petitioner wants to see his children residing abroad.
The petition filed through Munir Ahmad Khan advocate submitted that Sindh High Court has acquitted him in a reference while another reference was pending with Accountability Court but he was not allowed to go abroad to meet his children as his name was on ECL.
He requested the court to declare the act of government as illegal and direct it to exclude his name from the ECL.