Removing name from ECL: LHC to hear Maryam Nawaz’s plea today

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) will hear the plea filed by Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz over removing her name the Exit Control List (ECL) today.

A two-member bench of LHC, headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, will hear the petition filed by Maryam Nawaz in which she requested the court to direct the federal government to lift her name from the ECL so she could travel abroad to look after her ailing father. 

According to Maryam Nawaz,  her father is critically ill and she wanted to remain on his side during the treatment in London.

Maryam’s family including her brothers and have already been staying in her London residence to look after her father Nawaz Sharif.

Nawaz Sharif has been staying in London for his medical treatment, in this regard he was granted a further exemption in bail by the accountability court for 14 days in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.

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In this regard, last month, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed said that he doubted that Maryam Nawaz would be allowed to travel to London as her brothers were already there with her father Nawaz Sharif.