ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior has initiated a process to review the names which have been placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) for the last one year or more, according to an official document.
According to details, the ministry has approached the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and other provincial and federal departments to provide ample legal and rules based justification to continue the placement of names on the list recommended by them. The ministry advised them to furnish the reply within one month otherwise the ministry would be constrained to review the deletion as per available relevant record.
It is important to mention here that over 200 persons are on the ECL recommended by the FBR.
According to sources the persons on ECL on the recommendation of FBR include Mohammad Rafiq Tawakkal, Yousaf Tawakkal and Abdul Qadir Tawakkal of Tawakkal Limited, S.M Maqbool of M/s United Sugar Mills, Muhammad Jamil of M/s Noor Steel, Shaukat Hussain of M/s Shoukat Hussain Company, Ghulam Nabi Bhatti of M/s Khyber Gadoon Enterprises, Saleem Arif Siddiqui of M/s Saadi Cement Ltd, Mohammad Akbar Paracha of M/s Commodity General Trading, Mohammad Yaqoob Seth of M/s Nadia Ghee Mills and M/s Nabi Steel, Zakaria Ghani and Aftab Siddiqui of M/s Saif Nadeem Kawasaki Motors, Aftab Ahmed Shaikh of M/s Aftab Pvt Ltd, Rasheed Ahmed Shaikh of M/s Dazzling Traders, Humayun Mirza of M/s AQI Engineering, Abdul Razzak of M/s Lucky energy and others.
Exit from Pakistan (Control) Rules, 2010 provide that federal government can prohibit any person from proceeding from Pakistan to outside Pakistan, if he/she is involved in(1) corruption and misuse of power or authority causing loss to the government’s funds or property;(2)economic crimes where large government’s funds have been embezzled or institutional frauds committed;(3)acts of terrorism or its conspiracy, heinous crimes and threatening national security;(4)case of key directors of a firm, in default of tax or liabilities of not less than ten million rupees;(5)case of two or more key or main directors of a firm. In default of loan or liabilities exceeding one hundred million rupees;(6)any case and his name forwarded by the registrar of a High Court, Supreme Court of Pakistan or Banking Court only;(7) drug trafficking.-
