Exit from Pakistan (Control) Ordinance, 1981, empowers the Federal Government to prohibit any person from proceeding abroad.

The on-line system is operational at the ministry linked with international airports at Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Islamabad and Faisalabad.

[2] One of the points both parties agreed on was that the government would "initiate the legal process" to place Bibi's name on the Exit Control List.

After Bibi's acquittal on October 31, the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) ordered their followers to protest and begin sit-ins across the country.

However, the government stated that unless a person is declared a criminal, or there is another legal basis for action, the question of placing an individual's name on the ECL would not arise.