ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the government to remove the name of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Dr Asim Hussain from the Exit Control List (ECL), allowing him to go abroad for medical treatment.
Latif Khosa, counsel for the former petroleum minister, had filed the plead citing the deteriorating health condition of his client.
Tribune quoted Khosa as saying “Asim is under treatment. He was supposed to leave on November 9, but his flight has been pushed ahead to November 21.”
A bench, comprising Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Qazi Faez Isa, took up the case when counsel for Asim informed the court that his client returned to country in a month following earlier permission granted by the court to him to travel abroad.
Justice Isa remarked that justice should be equal for every citizen.
On August 29, Dr Asim was allowed to go abroad for treatment and directed to submit a surety bond of Rs6 million.
The former minister and close aide of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is facing charges of corruption and facilitating terrorists at his hospital during the tenure of PPP’s government.
