LAHORE- The Meesha Shafi – Ali Zafar controversy has stirred up a stormwithin and beyond the entertainment industry and seems like it isn’t dyinganytime soon.
On Saturday, musician Ali Zafar addressed the media outside a courtroom inLahore, speaking about his present legal battle with fellow artist MeeshaShafi.
He claimed that Shafi accused him of sexual harassment for personal gainsand if that is not the case than she should appear in court and her legalteam should not delay the proceedings any further. This morning, he and hiswife, Ayesha Fazli shared their side of the story and appealed to Meesha toeither step forward or to ‘end this fiasco’. These multiple appearanceshave led to Meesha Shafi and Ali Zafar becoming the talk of the country yetagain.
In response to Ali Zafar, Meesha’s legal team has finally addressed thematter and gave out a public statement, on her behalf.
Nighat Dad, the main lawyer on the case, shared an official statementregarding the dismissal of harassment case.link[image: View image on Twitter]link:View image on Twitter]link
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“Ali Zafar, in an attempt to silence Meesha Shafi filed a defamation suitagainst her. However, the best defence to defamation is truth and as MeeshaShafi has never spoken a false word against Ali Zafar, she cannot be heldguilty for any defamation by any court,” the statement read.
The statement reads that the authorities have dismissed the case oftechnical grounds; those being that Meesha and Ali were not in anemployee-employer relationship. Furthermore, the statement touches upon howthe defamation suit was filed in order to silence Meesha and her voice.
The Canadian immigration issue has also been addressed, saying that Meeshahas held the Canadian citizenship card since 2016 and splits her timebetween Canada and Pakistan.
