Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain Muhammad Safdar (retd) have requested the Ministry of Interior to remove their names from Exit Control List (ECL). Sharif, Maryam and Safdar wrote separate applications to the Ministry of Interior one week ago to remove their names from the ECL who were released from Adiala Jail after suspension of their jail terms by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) last month.
They wrote separate applications to the secretary Ministry of Interior against the order of the federal government for placing their names on the ECL. They referred to the Articles 4, 15 and 25 in their applications.
Their request stated that the grounds to prohibit a person proceeding from Pakistan to a destination outside the country as provided in the rule 2 of the Exit from Pakistan Rules 2010 are not applicable to the applicants. The applicants are not involved in any economic crime, act of terrorism or its conspiracy as envisaged by the said rules.
It said that the Accountability Court specifically acquitted the applicants of false charges of corruption for which the NAB could not prove any evidentiary proof. Suspending the said order of the Accountability Court and releasing the applicants on bail, the IHC imposed no restriction on the travelling abroad of the applicants. They further requested that the above constitutional, legal and factual position obligates the review of the order of the government as well as removal of the names of the applicants from the ECL.