Pakistan’s minister for communications Murad Saeed has served a authorized discover on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s former spouse Reham Khan for making baseless allegations in opposition to him in her ebook.
In line with a press launch issued by the Information Ministry on Sunday, Saeed sought an unconditional apology from Reham inside 14 days; in any other case, a defamation go well with of Rs 100 crore can be filed in opposition to her, Daybreak newspaper reported on Monday.
“Tender apology inside 14 days from this discover in any other case the court docket can be requested for her stern punishment and Rs 1 billion damages,” the minister mentioned within the official announcement.
Saeed mentioned a couple of days in the past, his ministry acquired distinction by standing primary amongst high 10 ministries as a consequence of extraordinary efficiency however the achievement was made controversial with the reference to the contents of Reham’s ebook, which was revealed in 2018.
“Your ebook was used as a reference for launching malicious propaganda and false allegations,” he mentioned. The minister mentioned Reham by no means contradicted some references from her ebook that had been leaked earlier than it was revealed. “Later, with the reference to her ebook, false allegations had been leveled in opposition to Murad Saeed,” the press launch mentioned.
Earlier this month, the communications minister filed a cybercrime case in opposition to the editor-in-chief of Day by day Jinnah and On-line Information Company — Mohsin Baig — with Federal Investigation Company (FIA) for, what he known as, his ”character assassination”, throughout a chat present on a personal TV channel.
Through the present, Baig and different panelists had given a reference to Reham Khan’s ebook, implying why Saeed was known as a ‘blue-eyed’ minister of the Prime Minister Khan’s Cupboard. Saeed, some days again, had vowed to take authorized motion in opposition to Reham for ”disgracing him and the PM” in her ebook launched in July 2018, it mentioned.
Reham, who married Imran Khan in 2015, lived with him for lower than two years and acquired divorced in November 2016.
In her ebook revealed after the divorce, she insinuated a couple of relationship between her former husband Khan and Saeed.
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