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QUETTA, Aug 19: A Balochistan High Court division bench on Tuesday issued notices to the interior ministry and the assistant director, passport, Quetta, on a petition filed by former Balochistan chief minister Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi seeking exclusion of his name from the exit control list (ECL).
The bench comprising Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani adjourned the hearing for 10 days.
The petitioner pleaded that he had made bargain with the National Accountability Bureau and no other case was pending against him but the passport office was reluctant to grant him a new passport on the pretext that his name was included in the ECL.
The counsel of the petitioner argued that the NAB had written to the quarters concerned that the bureau would have no objection if Nawab Magsi’s name was excluded from the list.
BAIL PLEA: A division bench of the BHC has rejected the bail application of a former minister, who was convicted by the accountability court in corruption reference besides the court also dismissed two appeals challenging the verdict of the trial court.
The bench comprised Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani here on Monday rejected the bail petition filed by ex-minister Malik Gul Zaman Kasi praying that till the disposal of his appeal he should be granted bail.
The Accountability Court Quetta had sentenced the petitioner for three years of imprisonment and fine of Rs300,000 in corruption reference.
In another case the court dismissed the appeals challenging the verdict of the Accountability Court Quetta that had punished two former government officials Ishrat Ali and Nihad Pervaiz in corruption references. The trial court sentenced Ishrat Ali for five years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs15 million and Nihad Pervaiz was convicted for two years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs5 million.
Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz and Justice Akhtar Zaman in petition challenging the stoppage of water directed the director general of WASA Balochistan that the authority could not stop the water supply through pipeline to the consumers of the Railway society that have deposited the water bill of WASA.
