ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday served Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan with a Rs. 10 billion legal notice for making “baseless claims” against the PPP’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
The notification written by Zardari to the PTI leader stated that Khan’s comments “had caused significant harm and hurt to the sensibilities of the members of Pakistan Peoples Party which are not only in Pakistan but all over the world consequently damaging and defaming their name.”
The notification claims that the PTI leader attempted to link Zardari to terrorist organisations through “baseless accusations,” “blindly disregarding the fact that our client and his party has remained the victim of terrorism.”
The notification further states that the PPP co-chairperson suffered “great suffering, mental stress, and loss of reputation” as a result of the PTI chief’s “defamatory conduct.”
Therefore, you are hereby required to publicly apologise on behalf of our client within 14 (fourteen) days of receiving this notice. If you fail to do so, our client will be forced to take appropriate legal action against you, including criminal and civil lawsuits, before the appropriate courts and forums in Pakistan and England.include, but not restricted to, suit for damages in the amount of Rs. 10,000,000,000/- (Rupees ten billion only) at your own expense and risk,” the warning stated.
