PTI Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has sent a defamation notice to Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel for circulating “wrongful, baseless, false, misleading, erroneous, malicious and defamatory” information in his May 26 press conference.
According to the detail, the notice served by Imran Khan’s lawyer Abuzar Salman Niazi urged Abdul Qadir Patel to tender his unconditional apology to Imran Khan and take back his ‘shameful allegations’ within 15 days.
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The notice stated that if the health minister cannot apologize then he should submit a fine of Rs10 billion, which will be deposited in Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, otherwise, legal action should be taken against him. It also called on Patel to refrain from making further defamatory comments.
Imran Khan has sent a defamation notice of Rs 10 billion to Pakistan’s Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel.
— Wajahat Kazmi (@KazmiWajahat) May 30, 2023
It must be noted that Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel alleged that PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s mental stability is ‘questionable’ as he cited the former prime minister’s medical reports.
The federal minister said that the former prime minister’s samples were taken at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad after he was arrested in the Al-Qadir Trust case on May 9. He pointed out that the initial report shows the presence of toxic elements and the excessive usage of alcohol and cocaine.
He further claimed that there was no mention of any fracture in the PTI chief’s medical reports while he had a plaster on his leg for five to six months. “Have you ever seen anyone having himself plastered for a wound on the skin or muscle?” he asked.
The allegations made by the Health Minister gained a lot of traction. Senior journalist Shahzeb Khanzada has said that according to three doctors, the accusations leveled by Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel against PTI Chairman Imran Khan are “not only laughable but also unfounded”.
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