ISLAMABAD: Federal Defence Minister Thursday said he has apprised the Prime Minister and the President of his name on the Exit Control List (ECL).

Talking to Geo News, he said the court is independent and he would defend his case in the court.

The defence minister said he did not go to the airport; but, his crew informed him from the airport that he cannot go on China tour, as his name is on ECL.

Mukhtar further said there were various other people including Pak Navy chief Admiral Noman Bashir and China?s ambassador and the crew at the airport, adding Pak Navy chief left for China without him.

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Pakistan’s Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said he has been barred from leaving the country for an official visit to China after a Supreme Court decision revived a corruption case against him.

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LAHORE: Former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Aitzaz Ahsan, has said that the ministers, who benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance, should step down.

He said it would take some days to implement the court?s orders. The attorney general should be written to re-open the cases, he opined.

Ahsan further said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government was dissolved in 1996 for not adhering to the court?s order about judges case.

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Karachi

The City Council on Thursday passed a resolution by majority vote stating there must be uniforms in schools and colleges in order to re

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ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry has placed the names of 248 NRO beneficiaries on the Exit Control List (ECL) on the directives of the National Accoun

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Two U.S. missile strikes hit the main sanctuary used by al-Qaeda and the Taliban along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killing 17 people.

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The most significant question about accountability was neither asked nor answered during the Supreme Court proceedings about the NRO: If President Zar

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Karachi

The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Sindh Katchi Abadis (Amendment) Bill-2009, empowering the provincial government t

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