ISLAMABAD- Former Prime Minister (PM) Raja Pervez Ashraf has filed petition in Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking removal of his name from Exit Control List (ECL).
The petition has been filed by former PM through his counsels Farooq H Naik and Muhammad Amjid Iqbal Qureshi making interior ministry and NAB respondents. The petitioner has taken the plea in the petition that Raja Pervez Ashraf had remained former PM and PPP secretary general. He has also remained federal minister of water and power and Information and NAB authorities have placed his name in ECL illegally in December, 2013.
Seeking relief the petitioner prayed the court to remove his name from ECL. It has also been explained in the petition that Raja Pervez Ashraf came to know about inclusion of his name in ECL at the time of proceeding to Saudi Arab along with his family members to perform Umrah in 2013.