Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice-President Maryam Nawaz applied to the Lahore High Court (LHC) for permission to perform Umrah.
On Thursday, an LHC bench comprised of Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Anwarul Haq Pannu will hear Maryam Nawaz’s petition for permission to perform Umrah (today).
In her petition, Maryam Nawaz stated that she had surrendered her passport to the LHC, adding, “I want to go to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah but cannot because my passport is surrendered at the LHC.”
She pleaded with the court to let her go to Umrah once and to issue orders temporarily returning her passport.
It is worth noting that the LHC ordered Maryam Nawaz to surrender her passport when it granted her bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
Maryam Nawaz, who was arrested on August 8 in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) case, was granted bail by the Lahore High Court (LHC) in November 2019.
The verdict was announced by a two-member high court bench comprised of Justice Ali Baqar Najafi and Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem.
To secure her release, the PML-N leader was ordered to provide two surety bonds worth Rs10 million each, as well as a deposit an additional Rs70 million and surrender her passport.
