Bushra Bibi serves legal notice on Maryam
A combined photo of former prime minister Imran Khan (L) and his wife Bushra Imran. PHOTO: FILE
Former first lady Bushra Bibi on Thursday served a legal notice on PML-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz for hurling “defamatory, false, frivolous and slanderous” allegations against her husband PTI Chairman and former premier Imran Khan during a recent public speech.
The notice, sent through Fareed Advocate, mentions a speech delivered by Maryam on May 1 at a PML-N convention in Lahore.
It said the PML-N leader had accused Bushra Bibi of taking “five-caret gold rings as bribes for getting documents signed by authorities” during her address.
The notice said that the PML-N chief organiser’s statement was part of a “vilification campaign” meant to “harm, defame and denigrate” Bushra Bibi and her family with “criminal object to benefit the political opponents of the client’s husband Mr Imran Khan Niazi”.
It said Maryam “through a well-thought action to attack, defame and malign our client, intentionally and knowingly the falsehood of your false and fabricated statement, have wrongfully accused our client, who is a pious, purdah nasheen lady and a ‘housewife’, in spite of that she has been targeted by you, most atrociously to satisfy ill-will, malicious and vindictive agenda against the client and her family to achieve mischievous objectives”.
The notice asked the PML-N leader to withdraw her statement and issue an apology to Bushra Bibi within seven days, stating that otherwise, the latter had the legal right to initiate legal action against Maryam in court.
In response to the notice, Maryam said that Bushra Bibi would be held accountable for her “wrongdoings” when she appeared before the courts.
She was commenting on a tweet of Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb about the former first lady.
Earlier, the information minister had said that "veiled lady" Bushra Bibi should appear before the court to answer for her wrongdoings instead of sending a legal notice to the PML-N chief organiser.
She tweeted that Maryam had exposed all the "imposters" who looted the country ruthlessly.
Marriyum urged Bushra Bibi to face the cases that were filed against her.
She said the "veiled lady" did not confine herself to her house, but had been involved in corruption including receiving five-carat diamonds, land grabbing and accusing the political opponents of treason on social media.
With input from APP