Fake accounts case: Bilawal, Zardari placed on ECL.

Byline: Sohail Chaudhry and Hasnaat Mailk

ISLAMABAD -- The names of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari were placed on the Exit Control List (ECL), a day after the government announced the names of 172 accused in the fake accounts case would be added to the list.

The list also includes the names of Zardari's sister Faryal Talpur, Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, former CM Qaim Ali Shah, Omni Group's Anwar Majeed, Abdul Ghani Majeed, former chairman Pakistan Stock Exchange Hussain Lawai, former president National Bank of Pakistan Syed Ali Raza and others.

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The move comes days after the JIT led by FIA Director Najaf Mirza submitted its findings before a three-member apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar. The bench is hearing a sou motu case pertaining to money laundering of billions of rupees through fake bank accounts.

The federal cabinet, on Thursday, decided to place the accused on the no-fly list. The decision was announced by Federal Minister for Informaton and Technology Fawad Chaudhry. 'They will be held accountable and each and every penny of the national exchequer will be recovered,' he said in a press conference.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader urged Zardari to take the JIT report 'seriously'.

Fake accounts case: Govt to place Zardari, Bilawal and others on ECL

Meanwhile, PPP categorically rejected the JIT report findings. 'I don't accept it and the people of this country won't accept it,' asserted Bilawal while addressing a large crowd of the PPP supporters at the 11th death anniversary of his mother, former prime minister and the slain PPP chief Benazir Bhutto at the mausoleum of Bhuttos in Garhi Khuda Baksh on Thursday.

'The honourable courts are being fooled, misled and used for the political engineering,' he said but hoped that the Supreme Court, which issued notices to Zardari to submit a reply on December 31 following submission of the report, would eventually reject the JIT's report as fake.

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Meanwhile, the SC Registrar has issued a written order passed by the bench on December 24. Zardari, Talpur and others named in the JIT report have been directed to submit replies within five days.

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Exclusive copy of the written order available with The Express Tribune.

JIT report

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