Islamabad: The federal government has removed the names of former inspector general police of Sindh Rana Maqbool and DIG Karachi Farooq Amin Qureshi from the exit control list (ECL).
According to reports, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar has directed removing names of Rana Maqbool and Farooq Amin Qureshi from ECL.
Rana Maqbool and several other high ranking police officials are accused of unlawfully obtaining the physical custody of Asif Ali Zardari, when he was being held in a Karachi prison, in 1999 and subjecting him to torture and forcing him to record incriminatory statements. According to the prosecution, Zardari suffered injuries to his tongue and other parts of his body due to the torture while the police refused to register an FIR against the officials, attributing the injuries to Zardari’s bid to commit suicide instead.
In 2008, when Asif Ali Zardari became the president, the tongue cutting case activated bby then government, but both the persons stayed in Punjab under the shadow of PML-N and refused to appear for any court hearing claiming threats to their lives.
The PPP government’s interior minister Rehman Malik had put the names of these two ex-police officers on ECL.
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