LAHORE – Ousted Pakistani premier Imran Khan on Saturday announced that hislegal team has filed a defamation case against a leading news channel, itsprime-time show host, and UAE-based dubious figure Umar Farooq Zahoor forleveling corruption allegations.
In a social media post, the defiant politician said his UAE lawyers, led byHassan Shad, had filed criminal defamation (libel and slander) proceedingsunder Emirates law against Geo TV, Shahzeb Khanzada, and Umer Farooq Zahoor.
PTI chief started legal proceedings against group that accused Khan ofselling an expensive wristwatch, the latter bought from a state depository.
Earlier, the former premier confirmed another defamation suit in the UK,against Geo News, a month after the UAE business tycoon appeared in *AajShahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath* programme, where he claimed that he had boughtToshakana gifts received by Imran when he holds premiership, including awatch he was gifted by Saudi Crown Prince.
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The Toshakhana matter continued to be in headlines as lately, two audioclips allegedly featuring former prime minister Imran Khan’s wife BushraBibi discussing the sale of watches surfaced.
In the first clip, Bushra Bibi directed Zulfi Bukhari to sell Imran Khan’swatches ad reprimanded a former employee of the Bani Gala residence fortaking photos of the Toshakhan gifts in the second clip.
