Names of Imran Khan’s associates added to stop list

LAHORE: The names of important leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have been included in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s stop list.

The FIA ​​has put the names of several associates of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on the stop list, BOL News reported on Monday.

The federal watchdog ​​said that the names of Imran Khan’s former special assistants Shahbaz Gill and Shehzad Akbar have been included in the stop list.

Former principal secretaries Azam Khan, Arsalan Khalid and Dr Rizwan along with Gohar Nafees are also included in the no-fly list.

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The petition seeking the inclusion of the former Prime Minister’s name in the Exit Control List (ECL) will be heard today by the Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Athar Minallah.

The names of Fawad Chaudhry, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Qasim Suri and Asad Majeed have also been requested to be included in the ECL.

What is a stop list?

The FIA ​​introduced a “stop list” system in 2003 to prevent unwanted individuals from trying to leave the country in the shortest possible time, as it takes a long time to get one’s name listed in the ECL.