Pak govt denies permission to Maryam Nawaz to travel abroad

The Pakistan authorities has denied permission to PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz to travel abroad, saying these concerned in any financial crime and institutional fraud couldn’t be allowed to depart the nation, in accordance to a media report on Monday.

Maryam, the 46-year-previous daughter of Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was positioned on the no-fly record in August 2018 in an alleged corruption case.

“The rules concerning placement of the name of persons on Exit Control List (ECL) do not allow the government to entertain her application to remove her name from the no-fly list,” Babar Awan, senior lawyer and aide to the prime minister on authorized affairs, was quoted as saying by the Daybreak Information.

Headed by Regulation Minister Farogh Naseem, the subcommittee of the federal cupboard that offers with ECL instances rejected Maryam’s plea, as she had sought the ability for flying to London to take care of her ailing father, Awan stated.

Sharif, the PML-N supremo had left for London on November 19 in an air ambulance to search medical remedy in London, a month after the three-time premier was launched on bail from a seven-yr jail sentence for corruption.

Referring to the ECL guidelines, Awan stated even when an individual has legitimate travel doc to proceed to any vacation spot exterior Pakistan, the federal government may cease them from leaving the nation for being concerned in corruption and loss to authorities funds.

Maryam wouldn’t be allowed to proceed abroad as these concerned in any financial crime, embezzlement of massive authorities funds and institutional fraud couldn’t get permission to depart the nation, he stated.

Earlier, Particular Assistant to the Prime Minister on Info Firdous Ashiq Awan after the December 18 assembly of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) core committee had additionally stated that the federal government wouldn’t settle for Maryam’s request.

In the meantime, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in an announcement issued on Sunday stated, the federal government’s resolution to bar Maryam from travelling abroad didn’t shock anybody, contemplating that the PTI regime had at all times been desperately on the lookout for alternatives to victimise and persecute the PML-N management.

“The decision of the sub-committee has no logical reason for keeping Maryam on the ECL,” PML-N Info Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb claimed.