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Friday, April 18, 2008

Arbab among 1,200 put on ECL

KARACHI - The new coalition government has placed about 1200 high-profile personalities of the country on the Exit Control List (ECL), Khaleej Times learnt.
Among those who are banned from proceeding abroad include politicians, government officials, retired security personnel and industrialists. A prominent individual on the notorious list is the former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim.
According to an interior ministry order, a fresh list of 854 people had been made that included 248 people from Punjab, 211 from Sindh, 93 from NWFP, 133 from Balochistan and 169 from Islamabad on the recommendation of the National Accountability Bureau. The new entrants are mostly those people who were apparently near the previous government or had close contacts with the decisions makers of the PML-Q-led alliance.

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