The Lahore High Court on Thursday admitted for hearing a plea seeking the inclusion of the name of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s wife Kulsoom Nawaz on the Exit Control List (ECL).
Petitioner Advocate Javed Iqbal Jaffery, submitted the plea to the court which was admitted for hearing by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah after objections earlier raised on the application were removed.
The petitioner said in his plea that the prime minister visits foreign countries with his wife and stays in expensive hotels to overburden the national exchequer.
The petition further said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have personal businesses in Turkey, UK and China and he visits these countries to look after his business on the government expense.
During his first five months in the job, the chief executive of the country had reportedly spent nearly a month abroad on one private and five official visits.
The Supreme Court today will also take up disqualification petitions against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for allegedly misleading Parliament on August 29, when he had claimed that the government had not asked the armed forces to ‘mediate’ in the political crisis in Islamabad or become a ‘guarantor’ between the government and the protesting PTI and PAT.
