KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to the interior ministry and director generals of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a petition of Pakistan People Party leader Faryal Talpur pleading the removal of her name from the Exit Control List (ECL) and grant of one-time permission to travel abroad.

Her counsel apprised a two-judge bench headed by Justice Muhammad Karim Khan Agha that Talpur had to proceed to the United Kingdom to meet her daughter as she is studying there.

The counsel submitted that Talpur’s daughter had fallen ill, therefore, she needed to leave for the UK urgently.

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The petitioner’ counsel further submitted that his client had plan to stay in UK for four weeks to attend and help her ailing daughter.

The matter was not fixed for hearing and an application for urgent hearing was earlier allowed in the chamber.

Talpur is facing different reference pertaining to fake accounts. Her name was put on ECL in 2018 following an investigation into alleged money laundering by a Joint Investigation Team formed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The court directing counsel for the petitioner to come prepared to argue his case on next date deferred further hearing till November 26.

Besides DGs of NAB and FIA, DG Immigration has also been impleaded as respondent in the petition.