November 12, 2022
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Setback for Shehbaz in defamation case in UK

Sharif filed a defamation claim against the “grotesque allegation” in January 2020, claiming a retraction, damages and an apology….reports Asian Lite News

A UK High Court judge ordered Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son-in-law Imran Ali Yousaf to file a reply in a defamation suit they brought against the publisher of Mail On Sunday, and also ordered him to pay the sum of 30,000 pounds in costs to the defendant.

In 2019, the paper published an article alleging that Sharif had stolen and laundered the UK government’s aid money while he was the Chief Minister of Punjab province, Dawn reported.

Sharif filed a defamation claim against the “grotesque allegation” in January 2020, claiming a retraction, damages and an apology.

In March this year, the newspaper submitted a 50-page response to Sharif’s defamation suit.

According to an order issued on November 9 by Justice Nicklin of the King’s Bench Division, Sharif and Yousaf’s request for a stay order on proceedings was denied by the court, which has demanded that the two claimants respond to the defence presented by the newspaper and also pay the cost for earlier litigation incurred by the paper for the stay application, Dawn reported.

“The first claimant (Sharif) must pay the defendant’s costs of and occasioned by a) the stay application b) his original reply (including the costs arising from the process by which extensions of time were sought and agreed in respect of the same,” the order read.

Sharif was ordered to pay the sum of 30,000 pounds to the defendant by November 23.

The court also said both Sharif and his son-in law must file and serve amended replies to the defence presented by the paper.

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