(3) The Federal Government may at any time vary a notice under sub section (1), and where the
foreign State requests the release of the person from custody, either immediately or on a specified
date, the Federal Government shall direct that the person be released from custody accordingly.
(4) The provisions of this section shall apply, mutates mutandis, in the case of any detained
person in transit through Pakistan from one foreign State to another pursuant to a request for
assistance of the kind referred to in this section.
(5) Any person, whether or not a detained person, who is in Pakistan in response to a Pakistan
request under this Chapter to give evidence in a proceeding or to give assistance in relation to an
investigation, prosecution or the related proceeding may not, while in Pakistan, be__
(a) detained, prosecuted or punished; or
(b) subjected to civil process, before the person's departure from the foreign State pursuant
to the request in respect of any act or omission that occurred.
62. Foreign requests for Pakistan restraining orders.__(1) Notwithstanding anything contained
in any law for the time being in force, where the Federal Government approves a request of a foreign
State pursuant to section 66 to restrain dealings in any assets, some or all of which are believed on
reasonable grounds to be located in Pakistan, the Federal Government may apply to the High Court
for a restraining order.
(2) The High Court, to which an application is made under sub‑section (1), may issue a freezing
order, where it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that__
(a) an offence has been committed, or is suspected on reasonable grounds to have been
committed by a person against the laws of the requesting State which, if committed in
Pakistan, would have constituted an offence under this Act ;
(b) an investigation or proceeding has commenced in the foreign State relating to that
offence;
(c) assets derived by the person, his relatives and associates from the commission of the
offence are located in Pakistan ; and
(d) an order has been made, or is likely to be made in the foreign country having, to the effect
of forfeiting such assets, this Ordinance shall apply as if the offence had been committed
in Pakistan, whereupon the freezing order had been made under sub‑section (2) of section
38.
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