ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry has challenged a Sindh High Court (SHC) verdict regarding withdrawal of Ayan Ali’s name from exit control list (ECL) in Supreme Court in a money-laundering case.
The ministry pleaded in its petition that SHC decided on merit but did not take into account the maintainability of the petitions against a ban on the fashion model to leave the country.
The petition said the name of Ayan Ali was put on ECL at the behest of Punjab Home Department; however, Punjab government was not heard.
Making Ayan Ali a party to the case, the ministry pleaded with the court to annul SHC verdict.
A judge in SHC on January 20 suspended the court’s order to remove from the name of fashion model Ayan Ali and allowed the federal government to file an appeal against SHC decision within ten days.
Furthermore, she was not allowed to leave the country after she was caught red-handed while smuggling $500,000 to Dubai from Islamabad. She had remained in jail but was later bailed out.
Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto has ordered removing her name from ECL, but on a plea from the federal government, the order was suspended just a day afterwards. Naimatullah Phulpoto was made referee judge after dissenting note on the decision on ECL by the Sindh High Court.
