Daily Mail will have to face the law, warns Marriyum

Daily Mail will have to face the law, warns Marriyum

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November 12, 2022

Daily Mail will have to face the law, warns Marriyum

“Now, the Daily Mail will have to face the law,” the information minister said in a news statement.
According to Marriyum, the trail of defamation case would be held in “December 2023”.
She said cost of the case was being paid and “we have already won our case on the stage of presentation.”

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Friday claimed that the British newspaper Daily Mail had so far failed to prove the allegations levelled by its journalist David Rose in an article against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif about alleged misappropriation of public funds.

“Now, the Daily Mail will have to face the law,” the information minister said in a news statement.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif filed a defamation case against the Daily Mail and its journalist in a court of the United Kingdom a couple of years back.

According to Marriyum, the trail of defamation case would be held in “December 2023”.

A short reply in the case had already been submitted on behalf of PM Shehbaz Sharif, she said in the statement.

The minister said the judge had fixed December 13, 2022 for next hearing of the case and the reply on the allegations needed to be submitted by the same date.

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She said cost of the case was being paid and “we have already won our case on the stage of presentation.” She said the Daily Mail had opted to the delaying tactics to delay the case.

The London High Court has directed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to pay £30,000 (around Rs7 million) legal cost in the defamation case filed by him against the UK tabloid Daily Mail and journalist David Rose.

The high court also directed the son-in-law of Shehbaz Sharif, Ali Imran, to pay £27,055 by November 23.

The court refused to give Shehbaz Sharif more time to file a response.

The British court has rejected PM Shehbaz Sharif’s request for an indefinite adjournment in the defamation case against the tabloid.

According to media reports, Shehbaz Sharif’s defamation case was heard in the London court by Justice Matthew Nicklin. The prime minister’s counsel requested an indefinite adjournment but the court denied more time to the applicant.