PPP serves legal notice on Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party on Monday served a legal notice on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, seeking an unconditional apology for alleging that PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari was hatching an assassination plot against him.

Last week, the former prime minister alleged in a virtual press conference that Zardari was hatching and financing an assassination plot against him, also saying that for the purpose the PPP leader had hired “terrorists”.

The legal notice, served through Naek and Associates, says: “The statements made by you [Imran 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 says that PTI chairman’s “defamatory actions” have caused “severe agony, mental stress and loss of reputation” to Zardari.

It also says that Imran Khan while making baseless accusations has tried to link Zardari to terrorist organisations, “blindly disregarding the fact that our client and his party has remained the victim of terrorism”.

“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,” said the notice.