LHC awaits govt's decision on Maryam ECL.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court said on Monday it is awaiting a final decision from the federal cabinet in relation to the removal of Maryam Nawaz's name from the Exit Control List. A two-member bench of the high court, comprising Justice Ali Baqar Najafi and Justice Anwarul Haq Pannu, took up Maryam's second petition seeking the removal of her name from the no-fly list and onetime permission to visit London to inquire after her ailing father and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

Maryam's lawyers said that the federal cabinet gave no decision in the past 14 days regarding her earlier petition to remove her name from the no-fly list. The PML-N leader's lawyers asked the court to allow her to fly abroad...