Observer Report Islamabad
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Saturday claimed that the PML-N was adeclaring a premature victory by “giving the perception that (party president and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly) Shehbaz Sharif had won his defamation case” against British newspaper Daily Mail after just a “meaning hearing.”
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Akbar accused PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb of “still running the ministry of misinformation and disinformation”, saying he could not understand why “Maryam (Nawaz) and Shehbaz Sharif’s families have so much anger against Daily Mail”.
He also challenged Shehbaz to “file a defamation suit against me in London and I will present the evidence”.
A day earlier, a lawyer representing Daily Mail in a defamation case filed by Shehbaz Sharif told a judge that the publication’s evidence against the politician is “pretty limited”, but that it stands by the claims made in its article.
“[The case] will now go to trial. For example, Daily Mail will be asked what evidence it has to [use the term] money laundering,” Akbar added.
