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Gilani suspends Interior Secretary for barring Defence Minister from taking China flight | | Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has suspended
Interior Secretary Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry and three other Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials for stopping Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar and other delegates
from boarding a flight to China. This is the first instance that an Interior
Secretary has been suspended in the country, and sources privy to the issue said
the decisions was made during a meeting between Gilani and President Asif Ali
Zardari. According to a statement released by Gilani's office, the prime minister
took serious note of the incident which occurred at the Islamabad international
airport in which a FIA official did not allow Mukhtar to board a flight to China
without verifying whether his name was on the Exit Control List (ECL) or not.
The Prime Minister has also ordered a high level inquiry into the issue, The Daily
Times reports. It may be noted that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB),
following the NRO being declared as 'unconstitutional', had asked the Interior
Ministry to put the names of 253 beneficiaries of the controversial amnesty law,
including Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar,
on the ECL. Meanwhile, NAB Chairman Nawid Ahsan called upon Mukhtar to apologise
for the incident. Mukhtar's spokesman said, that during the telephonic conversation,
Ahsan admitted that FIA officials on duty at the airport had some confusion and
misunderstood the NAB's notification barring various politicians from leaving
the country. |
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