Today, Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) sent an Rs10 billion defamation notice to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan for leveling “baseless allegations” against former president Asif Ali Zardari.
The development comes days after Khan alleged that PPP co-chairman Zardari was hatching and financing a murder plot against him for which the ex-president had hired terrorists.
“The statements made by you (Khan) have caused great harm and hurt to the sentiments of the members of Pakistan Peoples Party which are not only in Pakistan but all over the world thereby damaging and defaming their reputation,” the notice sent via courier on behalf of Zardari read.
The notice contends that the PTI chief through his “defamatory, libelous, scandalous” remarks tried to create a link between Zardari and terrorist organizations “blindly disregarding the fact that our client and his party has remained the prey of terrorism”.
The notice also reads that the PTI chief through his “defamatory actions” caused “severe agony, mental stress and loss of reputation” to the PPP co-chairperson.
