CJ’s defamation notice: Reply submitted and withdrawn on Imran’s instructions, says lawyer
Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has withdrawn his written response to former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry’s defamation notice.
A member of PTI’s legal team told The Express Tribune that the reply was submitted on Imran’s instructions and the party has now withdrawn it. He further stated that the party has also decided to disassociate itself from this matter. He admitted that the legal team’s efforts have failed to ease the ongoing clash between Imran and the former chief justice.
“We gave him [Imran] advice that he should not start a confrontation with the judiciary because it will be very harmful for the party in the future, but some elements around Imran are misguiding him,” he said.
“We gave a soft reply on behalf of Imran to the former chief justice’s defamation notice because the party’s lawyers do not want to fight on so many fronts at this time.” He said that senior lawyer Wajiuddin Ahmed was also part of the legal team, which had prepared that reply.
A party source claimed that it had been agreed earlier between Imran’s lawyers and the former chief justice that a defamation suit would not be filed in court. The PTI lawyer said a reply was given to the former chief justice with the chairman’s approval.
In response to Iftikhar Chaudhry’s defamation notice, Imran had denied using ‘scandalous language’ against the judiciary and requested the former chief justice to reconsider filing the damage suit against him.
In his eight-page response, which was filed through two of his senior lawyers Hamid Khan and Ahmad Awais on August 2 but emerged on Monday, the PTI chief said it would not be appropriate for a former chief justice to enter into personal litigation.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 28th, 2014.
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Hamid Khan submitted an incorrect response and was about to be shown the door. Kudos for not making it look like a noora kushti. My leader IK!
this is simply a U-Turn as we usually have with Imran at every stage
True character of IK denuded so brilliantly. A shameless coward. Wonder how long his ISI funded sit in will last?
Do they call it confrontation with judiciary? this is about a person who brought bad repute to judiciary.
The Lord once again changed his mind and took a U turn! He is more educated and smarter than all his famous lawyers and retried judge of the SC who gave him professional advise.