Mohsin Dawar, a member of the National Democratic Front (NDF), was stopped at Islamabad International Airport on Sunday en route to Tajikistan to attend the Herat Security Dialogue.
According to the details, the parliamentarian was detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before his foreign departure.
With the permission of the federal cabinet, Dawar’s name has been removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) for two months.
“I believe they [FIA] were notified in advance [about my leaving],” he stated.
When he approached the counter, the MNA stated he was informed that his name remained on the no-fly list. He stated that he informed the officials that his name had been removed from the ECL, but they informed him that they had been instructed not to allow him to leave the country.
Four similar complaints registered at the Sohrab Goth, Shah Latif Town, and Boat Basin police stations in Karachi, Dawar, Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) MNA Ali Wazir and other party leaders are charged with rioting, inflammatory speech, and other offenses.
The aforementioned cases have been registered under sections 147 (rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of an offense committed in pursuit of common object), 500 (punishment for defamation), 505 (statement conducive to public mischief), and other sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in conjunction with Section 7 (Punishment for terrorist acts) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
