ISLAMABAD: Ex-finance minister Ishaq Dar has filed an application in the Supreme Court for early hearing of appeal, which has been pending before the court since 2018. Dar filed his application on Monday through his lawyer.
In 2018, Dar had filed an appeal against an accountability court’s decision which declared him a proclaimed offender. The latest application in the Supreme Court is requesting its intervention to consider his case on merit.
According to Dar’s lawyers, In July 2018, Ishaq Dar was blacklisted by the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports without any justification. This decision barred the passport authorities in Pakistan as well as the Pakistan missions abroad from issuing a passport to Dar.
In September 2018, the passport of Ishaq Dar was cancelled by the Imran Khan-led government. The action was taken despite the written request by Dar for the issuance of a passport, being a fundamental right for the travelling purposes.
Dar’s legal teams said: “The cancellation of Dar’s passport was a violation of law and human rights by the Imran Khan-led government, as a result of which Dar was stranded in the United Kingdom from September 2018 onwards, which made impossible for him to travel to Pakistan even if his health condition had improved.
