Shehbaz Sharif’s name is not on ECL

PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif cannot go abroad until his name is removed from the Provisional National Identification List (PNIL). His name is not on the Exit Control List.

According to the Interior Ministry, Shehbaz Sharif’s name is included in the blacklist, reported 24News HD TV Channel Thursday.

ShehbazSharif has to get his name removed from the PNIL to go abroad.

The federal cabinet, on October 9, 2020, had approved including the names of PML-N President and his family and other accused standing trial in the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) reference of money laundering involving a sum of over Rs7 billion on the Exit Control List (ECL).

Later, on October 27, 2020, the Supreme Court (SC) had dismissed the National Accountability Bureau’s appeal to include PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif’s name in the ECL. A two-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Mushir Alam, presided the hearing of NAB's petition against the Lahore High Court's (LHC) decision to remove Shehbaz's name from the no-fly list in the assets beyond means case