Imran Khan, the Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party, has sent a Rs10 billion defamation notice to Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel. This came after the Minister held a press conference where he made various claims that were defamatory to Imran Khan, such as suggesting that his mental stability was questionable. The government had shared the confidential medical reports of Imran’s tests, supposedly conducted earlier this month, while he was in custody. The report claimed that Imran’s “mental stability is questionable”, elsewhere it had declared his higher mental function to be “intact” and deemed him “fit” for detention by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The notice, under Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance, 2002, was sent to the health minister for circulating “wrongful, baseless, false, misleading, erroneous, malicious and defamatory” information in his press conference. The notice called on Patel to pay Rs10bn, which would be donated to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, for defaming Imran, and to retract his statements and issue an unconditional apology. Imran would initiate legal proceedings if the minister failed to take the aforementioned action within 15 days.
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