PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday ordered the federal government to remove the name of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asma Arbab Alamgir from the Exit Control List (ECL).
The PHC bench ordered the interior secretary to appear before the court on Wednesday if the matter wasn’t resolved on Tuesday.
Alamgir had filed contempt of court petition against the federal government for failing to comply with the court’s orders for removing her name from the no-fly list.
The petition stated that the high court had directed the government to remove Alamgir’s name from the ECL, but it had failed to implement the court’s orders.
Asma Alamgir and her spouse, Arbab Alamgir, who is also a PPP leader and ex-communications’ minister, are facing charges of accumulating assets beyond their known sources of income in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
