The High Court of Peshawar granted the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) Azam Swati to travel abroad, ordering its name to be withdrawn from the exit control list (ECL).
According to the written order made, the court ordered the authorities to withdraw the name of Swati from all the travel restrictions lists, including the National Provisional Identification List (PNIL) and the passport control list (PCL) .
Swati had challenged the ban on travel imposed on him, arguing that the restrictions were unjustified.
Last month, the Division bench of the High Court of Lahore (LHC) granted a deposit to the former federal minister and head of the PTI Azam Khan Swati in the case of October 4 recorded in the Taxila police station.
The bench including judge Sadaqat Ali Khan and judge Sadiq Mehmood Khurram ordered the PTI chief to submit a deposit of 50,000 rupees. Swati has been in detention for four months and is currently incarcerated in Attock Prison.
During the hearing, Dr. Babar Awan’s lawyer argued that the arrest of Swati was unjustified and that the protest is a constitutional right of each citizen, who cannot be refused.
He said the police had leveled false accusations against his client. The court accepted the surety advocacy, paving the way for its release. There are two remaining cases, in which the deposit is also likely.
This decision to release on bond also paved the way for the release of other arrested workers involved in the demonstrations of October 4 and 5, including those of Taxila, Hassan Abdal and Attock affairs.
In addition, in October 2024, an anti-terrorist court (ATC) in Islamabad granted a deposit in Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI), Azam Swati, in a case filed under the provisions of terrorism.
The case, registered in the Sangjani police station, accused swati of breaches related to terrorism following demonstrations and vandalism.
Judge Abu Al-Hasat Muhammad Zulkernain presided over the case and approved the post-arrest deposit of Swati against the bonds of 20,000 rupees.
Swati had been detained under terrorism clauses following allegations of incentive to protests that led to material damage. Swati’s legal team argued that the accusations were politically motivated.
In addition, Sweti was placed on Sunday after a raid on his farm at Chak Shahzad by cyber crime of the Federal Agency (FIA) Islamabad for having pretended to tweeted against senior military officials in November 2022.
It was later produced before a judicial magistrate, who presented him to the FIA during a two -day pre -trial detention.
A FIR against Swati was recorded by FIA Cyber Crime Wing on November 26, 2022 for “controversial” tweets which he had recently published against government officials, notably the former chief of staff of the Army (Coas).
The report argued that the head of the PTI had launched a “very odious campaign of intimidating tweets” against state institutions, including the army head “with malafid intentions and subsequent motifs”.
The FIR was recorded on the complaint of the State through Islamabad Cyber Crime Reporting Center Technical Assistant Aneesur Rehman.
