Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari has served legal notice through Senator Farooq H. Naek, senior Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan and former federal Law Minister on Syeda Abida Husain for leveling, false, unsubstantiated and tendentious allegations against former Prime Minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto in her book "Special Star- Benazir Bhutto's Story".
ISLAMABAD,(Pakistan Point News - 06th Feb, 2018) : Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari has served legal notice through Senator Farooq H. Naek, senior Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan and former Federal Law Minister on Syeda Abida Husain for leveling, false, unsubstantiated and tendentious allegations against former Prime Minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto in her book "Special Star- Benazir Bhutto's Story". The notice on behalf of Ms. Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari Daughter of Mr Asif Ali Zardari and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto has also been sent by Senator Farooq H.
Naek, on Ms. Ameena Saiyid, OBE, Managing Director, Printer, Publisher, Oxford University Press and Festival Director of Karachi Literary Festival, Ms. Salma Adil, Regional Sales Director South, Oxford University Press, Karachi Literary Festival, Through its Founders Dr Asif Aslam Farrukhi and Ameena Sayid. The notice reads “That alongwith the author of the book and the impugned statements, its printer and publisher as well as its circulator in Pakistan (Oxford University Press) who has circulated the defamatory book via its outlets without checking and confirming the contents therein are also liable for defamation.
” It further says, “That you have irresponsibly and maliciously made, printed and published the aforesaid statements to provoke sentiments against the Shaheed Mohtarma Bhutto and her party and to politically malign and victimize the Pakistan Peoples Party. Although our client believes in complete freedom of speech as enunciated in Article 19 of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 but in negation of its true spirit, the you have written, printed and published the impugned statements in the book mentioned supra against Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and her family without having properly investigated, verified and confirmed the complete and true facts.
” And That alongwith the author of the book and the impugned statements, its printer and publisher as well as its circulator in Pakistan (Oxford University Press) who has circulated the defamatory book via its outlets without checking and confirming the contents therein are also liable for defamation.” It further reads “That in view of the above our client is entitled to damages for mental torture, harassment, agony, humiliation which she, the workers and supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party have suffered and are undergoing at present because of wrongful acts on your part individually and jointly.
