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Granted one-time travel permission to Bukhari: Interim Interior Minister
ISLAMABAD: Interim Interior Minister Azam Khan on Thursday confessed that he had granted permission to blacklisted Zulfi Bukhari to travel abroad. Azam in a briefing to Senate Standing Committee said that Khan’s friend had asked for a one-time permission to travel abroad which was granted. He added that the interior secretary had informed him that […]
ISLAMABAD: Interim Interior Minister Azam Khan on Thursday confessed that he had granted permission to blacklisted Zulfi Bukhari to travel abroad.
Azam in a briefing to Senate Standing Committee said that Khan’s friend had asked for a one-time permission to travel abroad which was granted.
He added that the interior secretary had informed him that Bukhari was stopped from travelling abroad as his name was on the blacklist.
Azam maintained the view that Bukhari was granted permission on the basis that he had submitted an affidavit affirming his return to Pakistan, after which he was granted to travel abroad for not more than six days.
Azam denied any such claims that Khan had called him to remove his friend’s name from the blacklist.
The interior minister added that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had initiated a probe into Bukhari’s offshore companies.
Azam added that Bukhari’s name was placed in the blacklist in the absence of a cabinet committee, although NAB had requested to place his name on the Exit Control List (ECL).
During a media briefing, it was explained that taking a person’s name off or on the blacklist can be done without the cabinet’s approval but cannot be placed or removed from ECL.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s close friend Zulfi Bukhari had earlier traveled abroad to perform Umrah with Khan.
Earlier today, Islamabad High Court (IHC) had directed Zulfi Bukhari to join NAB’s probe into his offshore companies while hearing petition of his names removal from the blacklist.
Justice Aamer Farooq during the hearings questioned on whose orders did the interior ministry remove Bukhari’s name from the blacklist?
Bukhari, despite being summoned to the bureay, failed to appear, to which Bukhari argued that as a British-National NAB lacked the jurisdiction to probe into him.
Khan’s friend while talking to the media outside IHC said that he had only one passport and had traveled on that. He added that no reason had been given for placing my name on the blacklist.
