Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Miftah Ismail barred from leaving country

Author: Agencies

The Interior Ministry on Friday placed the names of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Miftah Ismail on the Exit Control List. According to the ministry, their names were placed on the no-fly list on the recommendation of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

The names of Imranul Haq, Uzma Adil Khan, Mubeen Saulat, Shahid Islamuddin and Amir Naseem were also placed on the ECL.

Abbasi is accused of illegally awarding a 15-year contract for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal when he was the petroleum minister in former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet. The case was closed by the NAB in 2016, but was reopened in 2018. The federal cabinet reportedly gave a go-ahead to place the names of Abbasi and others on the ECL in a meeting earlier this month.

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