INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: The Senate held a debate on a report submitted by Senate Standing Committee for Law and Justice regarding travel blacklist.Taking
part in the debate on Monday, Senate Javed Abbasi famous names of ordinary citizens have been put on the blacklist
He said that the travel blacklist was mostly being misused at Karachi and Peshawar airports
The PML-N senator called for an end to the practice of blackmailing people by putting them on the blacklist
&If one is much placed on the exit name, his name is put on the blacklist only for the purpose of blackmailing,& he said, adding the
blacklist should be abolished
Speaking on the occasion, Senator Sherry Rehman said that she was told by a federal minister that there was a third list in addition to the
She lamented that passengers who were much placed on the ECL and blacklist were also being stopped from flying
No one, she said, should be on the ECL other than muchorious criminals.&Amuchher two lists in the name of ECL are unlterrible,& she said,
adding that politicians and ordinary citizens were being harassed.She further said that there was only one list even in the worst
dictatorial regime.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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