Daily Times

The interior ministry on Friday approved the National Accountability Bureau’s request to place names of 23 individuals including former members of Punjab Assembly and officers on the exit control list (ECL), a private TV channel reported.

NAB had earlier requested the interior ministry to place the names on the ECL.

The names include Ali Khan Jan, the secretary primary and secondary healthcare Punjab, Gujranwala Waste Management Company CEO Dr Ataal Haq, Haroon Ashraf, Okara Deputy Commissioner Aslam Qasmi, Faisalabad member price committee Arshad Ahmed, Mian Latif, Ali Bajwa, Muhammad Aslam, Lahore Waste Management Company CEO Waseem Ajmal, Knowledge Park Company CEO Shahid Zaman, Paragon City Manager Shehzad Waheed and Director Finance Farhan Ali, LDA City development partners Malik Asif, Mian Tahir Jawed, Abdur Rasheed, Shahid Shafeeq, Imran, Rana Muhammad Arif, Jamil Ahmed, Khalid Majeed, Najam Shah, Rashid Majeed and Syed Furrukh Ali Shah.

In March, the federal cabinet had formed a subcommittee to examine the cases of individuals that are presently on the ECL and to take steps for the addition and deletion of related names depending on the nature of their respective cases. The subcommittee will review every name placed on the ECL on a case-by-case basis and remove names which no longer need to be on it.

The development comes at a time when NAB has asked for the names of the Sharif family members to be put on the ECL due to corruption references pending against them.

Published in Daily Times, June 30^th 2018.