(24 News) The Islamabad High Court directed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) member of the National Assembly Mubeen Arif to land in Islamabad and ordered the security agencies not to arrest him upon his return home.
Justice Babar Sattar of the Islamabad High Court heard the petition to remove the name of PTI Member of National Assembly Mubeen Arif from the Passport Control List (PCL), on behalf of the petitioner, Rizwan Akhtar Awan, Advocate, on behalf of the federal government. Additional Attorney General Manoor Iqbal Dugal appeared in the court.
DG Immigration and Passport Mustafa Jamal Qazi appeared on the court notice and said that generally the names are included in the PCL at the request of the agencies, the court inquired under which law you put their names in this list? This is the jurisdiction of the federal cabinet. How do you use it?
DG Passports said that the federal cabinet has delegated the authority, it is written in the rules, under rules 22, we put the names in the list, on which Justice Babar Sattar remarked that the DG should give a detailed report, if I come to this conclusion. If you find that you are abusing the authority, the consequences will be different, so the response you submit should be done carefully.
Later, the court issued an order that no security agency should arrest Mubeen Arif on his return home and adjourned further hearing of the case till next week.
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It should be noted that after the May 9 riots, the names of dozens of people, including the PTI chairman, were put in the No-Fly List (NFL). The names were removed from the exit control list while the names of PTI founder Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi, former lady’s close friend Farah Gogi and senior PTI leader, former Special Assistant to Overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari were included in the ECL. were maintained.
2024-09-12 20:39:57