SHC rejects Dr Asim’s defence seeking dismissal of his name from ECL
Dr Asim Hussain. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) deserted on Monday Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Karachi President and a former sovereign apportion Dr Asim Hussain’s petition that sought a lapse of his Pakistani and Canadian passports and a dismissal of his name from a exit control list (ECL).
A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar, announced a outcome that was indifferent on May 26 after conference a arguments of a lawyers representing a petitioner, a emissary profession ubiquitous and a National Accountability Bureau’s special prosecutor.
“As a other request per chit antiquated Nov 24, 2015 is concerned, given a name of a postulant is now placed on a ECL on a basement of an sequence upheld by this justice while extenuation bail to a postulant and that we have confirmed by dismissing a diverse application, no serve adjudication on a pronounced chit is required,” a justice ruled in a 14-page order.
Order indifferent on Dr Asim’s defence seeking dismissal of name from ECL
Dr Asim, a former sovereign petroleum apportion and a tighten help of former boss Asif Ali Zardari, had changed a justice seeking a lapse of his passports from a SHC’s Nazir (official) and directives to the interior method to take his name off a ECL to transport abroad for medical treatment.
His lawyers, Lateef Khosa, Anwar Mansoor Khan and Qadir Mandokhel, argued that primarily Rangers had taken him into surety control for 90 days underneath a Section 11EEEE of a Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 in Aug 2015. Later, a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) authorities had taken him into their control yet no inquiry, review or anxiety was tentative opposite him.
Hearing on Dr Asim’s defence adjourned
They argued that during this period, Dr Asim’s name was put on a ECL by a minute antiquated Nov 24, 2015 and dual crime references were filed opposite him in that a SHC had also postulated him bail.
They combined that a high justice had postulated him bail on Nov 1 final year in a box relating to a diagnosis of terrorists during his sequence of private hospitals in Karachi and a ATC endangered had available him to transport abroad for medical treatment.
They contended a medical reports of a postulant on a basement of that he was postulated bail by a SHC clearly suggested that he was pang from a series of diseases.
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