Ex-PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi leaves for US
The federal government had recently allowed Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to go abroad.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior vice president Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday left for the United States where he would stay for two weeks.
According to sources, the PML-N leader is visiting the US to inquire about the health of his sister and brother-in-law. The federal government had recently allowed Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to go abroad.
A summary was approved by the Federal Ministry of Interior under which the government removed Abbasi’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL) and allowed him to go abroad.
It is pertinent here to mention that the PML-N senior vice president s name was included in the ECL on the recommendation of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). He has been given this special permission only once to go abroad.
