Shahbaz Sharif Send Notice of Defamation to Imran Khan (Copy of Notice)
LEGAL NOTICE
TO:
Mr. Imran Khan Member National Assembly, Chairman, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, (TO), Secretariat, House No. 2, Street No. 84, G-6/ 4, Embassy Road, Islamabad.
Location
N: 16.A, Hali Road, Gulberg Lahore
DATE October 27, 2016
TELEPHONE + 92 42 3571 7767 -68 Fax: + 92 42 3571 7769
SUBJECT: NOTICE UNDER SECTION 8 OF THE DEFAMATION ORDINANCE 2002.
This is a statutorily required notice which I address to you on behalf of and under instructions from Mr. Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif who is presently holding the office of the Chief Minister of Punjab.
2. That talking to some media-men yesterday i.e. on 26-10-2016, you leveled certain accusations against Mr. Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif alleging that one Javed Sadiq was his front man; that this Javed Sadiq had already pocketed fifteen billion rupees out of four contracts secured by him for some Chinese companies; that on account of these contracts,
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Moreover, your false vilification of M. Muhammad Shehbaz Stuffs intentions has the potential to erode the carefully built trust with domestic and international partners that has wider ramifications on development in Punjab and national progress overall. These allegations are yet again denied as false, unfounded, malicious and motivated and, consequently, I am instructed to call upon you A withdraw the same and to tender a public apology to M. Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance, 2002 gives you fourteen days lime to do the needful, failing which, my client shall have no option but A take recourse to such legal remedies as are available A him under the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, civil and criminal.
