Ishaq Khan
PESHAWAR: Senior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Asma Arbab Alamgir has filed contempt of Court petition in Peshawar High Court (PHC) against the federal government over not removing her name from the Exit Control List (ECL), on Monday.
According to details, PPP leader filed petition against the federal government after it failed to remove her name from ECL.
The petition stated that the high court had directed to remove Ms Alamgir’s name from the ECL, but the federal government fails to implement court directives.
The petition sought contempt of court proceedings against the federal government in this regards.
Earlier on April 24, PHC had directed the Ministry of Interior to remove Asma Alamgir’s name from ECL.
The order was issued by a division bench comprising Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Musarrat Hilali after hearing a writ petition filed by PPP leader, who was an adviser to ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Asma Alamgir for challenging the presence of her name on ECL despite the expiry of one-year period.
An accountability court had indicted the couple once again after removing the part regarding foreign properties from the reference on February 12.
It is also pertinent to mention here that Asma Arbab Alamgir and her husband, Dr Arbab Alamgir, who is also a PPP leader and former federal minister, was facing a charges of accumulating assets worth Rs332 million which were beyond their known sources of income in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
NAB said in its probe that it surfaced that the suspects accumulated movable and immovable assets including a house in G-11/3 Islamabad; 10-kanal land at Mauza Shah Alladitta, Islamabad; a bungalow in F-7/2 Islamabad; prize bonds; a land rover vehicle and several bank transactions.
