PPP issued a legal notice to former Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday, demanding that he apologize for making allegations against former President Asif Zardari.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman has been in deep water after making shocking remarks in one of his impassioned speeches, and he has been given two weeks to apologize.
According to Farooq Naek’s notice, the claims leveled by the PTI chairman have damaged, soiled, and dishonored his client’s name and character both in Pakistan and abroad, and are an attack on both his personal life and political career.
It further said Imran Khan ‘committed utterly unjustified and inexcusable defamation just to malign our client’s reputation in Pakistan as well as in the world causing severe agony, mental stress and loss of reputation.’
PPP serves legal notice on Imran Khan.
“You are, therefore, hereby called upon to render unconditional apology from our client, on television, print, and social media, within 14 (fourteen) days from the receipt of this notice, failing whereof, our client shall be constrained to institute appropriate legal proceedings against you, civil as well as criminal, before the competent Courts of law and forums of Pakistan as well as of England, including but not limited to Suit for Damages for Rs.10,000,000,000/- (Rupees ten billion Only) at your risk as to cost and consequences,” the legal notice reads.
Last week, the ousted prime minister accused Asif Zardari of being a key player in hatching a new conspiracy for his assassination. He said the money looted from Sindh, where the PPP is in the power, was being used to kill him, adding that Zardari was among the four persons involved in hatching a plot to assassinate him.
The former premier said he had already recorded a video, which will be released in case he is killed.
When asked about the arrests of PTI leaders, Khan stated openly that they were being punished as traitors and victimized for political revenge. He said that the administration had devoted all of its efforts to removing him from politics rather than addressing the country’s economic problems, which he claimed were worsening by the day. He claimed that the Pakistani rupee had dropped to a historic low, while foreign exchange reserves had collapsed to frightening levels. He remembered that when the PTI administration was deposed, the reserves stood at more than $16 billion.
