Maryam Nawaz, vice president of the PML-N, forfeited her passport in order to receive bail in a corruption case in 2019, but the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered her to give it back on Monday.
The PML-N leader protested to the LHC about the anti-graft organisation, saying that despite the lack of any charges or a trial against her, she had been unable to perform her constitutional rights for around four years.
She stated that she had a pressing need to leave the country in order to care for and check on her ailing father. She had asked the court to order the deputy registrar (judicial) to return her passport in the interest of justice.
When post-arrest bail was authorised for Maryam Nawaz in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case, she turned over her passport to the court.
The case was heard today by a three-member LHC panel that included Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti, Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh.
Maryam Nawaz’s passport can now be returned because the NAB informed the court during the previous hearing that it was no longer required.
