ISLAMABAD: A federal cabinet subcommittee proposed adding PTI Chairman Imran Khan and 28 others to the Exit Control List (ECL) in connection to the Al-Qadir Trust case.
The case alleges that Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, received significant sums of money and extensive land from Bahria Town Ltd. to legalize a sum of Rs50 billion repatriated by the UK during the previous PTI government.
Imran was initially arrested earlier this year in this case at the Islamabad High Court premises but was released after the Supreme Court deemed the arrest unlawful.
On Nov 14, he was rearrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the same case while already imprisoned in Adiala Jail for the cipher case. He was placed on physical remand following his arrest.
The Ministry of Interior, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), stated that a subcommittee meeting of the federal cabinet, chaired by interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti and attended by officials from various departments, recommended adding 41 individuals to the ECL, including 29 suggested by NAB for involvement in the £190 million scam. This recommendation, along with proposals to remove 13 cases from the list, has been forwarded to the federal cabinet for approval.
Earlier this year, during the then-PDM government, Imran, his wife, and several party members were placed on the Provisional National Identification List (PNIL) following widespread riots triggered by Imran’s initial arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case and other corruption allegations.
