ISLAMABAD (By Lala Hassan) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led federal government here on Friday released a list of 172 persons whose names have been placed on the Exit Control List (ECL).
Top Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders including party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, former president Asif Ali Zardari, MPA Faryal Talpur, business tycoon Malik Riaz, former CM Sindh Qaim Ali Shah, Sohail Anwar Siyal, bureaucrats and other are among those placed on the no-fly list.
It has been observed first time in Pakistan that the name of sitting chief executive of a province has been put on the ECL.
According to list ten members of the Omni Group, including chairman Anwar Majeed and his sons Abdul Ghani Majeed, Nimr Majeed are also on the list.
Tahir Mehmood, acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, and former Karachi Stock Exchange chairman Hussain Lawai, who is currently incarcerated in connection to the money laundering scam, are also on the list of suspects barred from leaving the country.
The list includes presidents of local banks Ahsan Raza Durrani, Ahsan Tariq, Syed Ali Raza, and Bilal Sheikh; while former Sindh Building Control Authority chairman Manzoor Qadir has also been placed on the ECL.
