{"id":16404,"date":"2017-08-29T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16404"},"modified":"2017-08-29T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:43:41","slug":"sc-allows-dr-asim-to-go-abroad-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16404","title":{"rendered":"SC allows Dr Asim to go abroad for a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, August 29 (TNS):<\/strong> The apex court on Tuesday lifted travel ban on Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) leader Dr Asim Hussain allowing him to go abroad for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dost Muhammad Khan took up Dr Asim\u2019s petition\u00a0and ordered that his name be temporarily removed from the exit control list (ECL).<\/p>\n<p>After hearing the arguments, the top court gave him one month\u2019s permission to go abroad and receive\u00a0medical treatment on a surety of Rs6\u00a0million.<\/p>\n<p>It set aside the Sindh High Court\u2019s orders in June wherein Dr Asim\u2019s plea for the removal of his name from the\u00a0ECL was turned down.<\/p>\n<p>The court added that it expected Dr Asim to fulfill his commitment and return to Pakistan within a month.<\/p>\n<p>The court has also rejected the National Accountability Bureau\u2019s (NAB) appeal against Dr Asim\u2019s bail and expressed concerns over Dr Asim\u2019s allegations that he was tortured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, August 29 (TNS): The apex court on Tuesday lifted travel ban on Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) leader Dr Asim Hussain allowing him to go abroad for medical treatment. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dost Muhammad Khan took up Dr Asim\u2019s petition\u00a0and ordered that his name be temporarily removed from the exit control list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-16404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16406,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404\/revisions\/16406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}