Interior Ministry has specific criteria to insert name in ECL: Nisar
ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT ONLINE):Former Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday informed the
National Assembly that the ministry has a specific criteria to induct names
in the Exit Control List (ECL).
Responding to a question of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarian
(PPPP) lawmaker Naveed Qamar, he said names were included in the ECL
apparently due to their personal enmity in the past.
The laws related to insert name in ECL were revised soon after
assuming the charge of the ministry, he said adding new SOP has been
fully devised in this regard.
Ch. Nisar said people were now put in ECL following recommendations
of defence institutions, intelligence agencies, courts as per new SOP.
He said ECL issue was de-centralized and a committee was constituted
under the chairmanship of Additional Secretary to decide about inserting
names in ECL. “Nobody can include the name in the ECL by his/her own
initiative, like past practice” he added.
“The committee is empowered to take any decision keeping in view
the recommendations, and if the committee does not take decision on the
recommendations, it had to disclose the reasons”, he added.