Hamza Shehbaz serves insult notice to Imran Khan

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) authority Imran Khan. PHOTO: AFP / FILE

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker, Hamza Shehbaz, on Friday, served a insult notice to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, Imran Khan, for claiming a statute celebration had offering him Rs10 billion to stay silent on a Panama Papers liaison days after his father Punjab Chief Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, had sent a identical notice to a cricketer-turned-politician.

The notice, a duplicate of that is accessible with The Express Tribune, was sent by Advocate Azam Nazeer Tarar. Referring to a PTI chief’s claim, it said: “The matter that a customer [Hamza] had directly done an offer of remuneration of Rs10 billion to we to behind off from posterior a box of Panama Leaks, is positively false.”

Shehbaz Sharif serves insult notice to Imran Khan

It went on to explain that Imran’s matter is “damaging and injurious” since of a supportive inlet of a position hold by a PML-N lawmaker. “These publications are partial of a accordant bid to assail a customer and have been done with an aim to taint his open image.”

The notice, served underneath Section 8 of a Defamation Ordinance, 2002, demanded a antithesis politician to publicly apologize within 14 days in a “same demeanour and with a same inflection as a strange insulting publications,” adding if Imran unsuccessful in “doing a above, we have been educated to trigger polite record to redeem a sum of Rs10 billion as damages.”

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