The name of PML-N MNA Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been removed from the Exit Control List for 15 days.
The federal cabinet approved the decision and released a circulation summary.
The former prime minister has been issued a memorandum for travelling abroad.
Abbasi requested permission to fly to the US to meet his sister and brother-in-law who have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. He said they have been shifted to the intensive care unit and he wants to visit them.
Corruption cases
The National Accountability Bureau has been investigating Abbasi in a number of corruption cases.
On November 16, an Islamabad accountability court indicted Abbasi in the LNG terminal reference.
Abbasi, who served as the PM from August 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018, after the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif , has been accused of awarding the LNG Terminal-1 contract in a non-transparent way. NAB claimed that from 2013 to 2017, unexplained deposits of Rs1.4 billion and Rs1.2 billion were made to Abbasi and his son’s bank accounts.
Abbasi has denied the charges.
On August 5, Abbasi was indicted in the illegal Pakistan State Oil appointments case.
Abbasi has been accused of illegally appointing Sheikh Imranul Haq as the managing director of PSO and Yaqoob Sattar as the deputy managing director (finance) while he was serving as the minister of petroleum and natural resources from June 7, 2013 to July 28, 2017.
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