ISLAMABAD For all false, baseless, unfounded allegations and a malicious section that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has launched against Jang/Geo Group, Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Jang Group and Geo TV Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman has served a legal notice on Imran Khan, submission him to synopsis an unconditional apology and pay one billion rupees in damages within 14 age or the Group would initiate legal procedures against him in a court of law.
Baseless, negative, insulting, venomous campaign: Jang/Geo Group issues legal banner to Imran
Notices have been served on Khan through Advocate Amir Abdullah Abbasi at his Lahore’s Zaman Park and Islamabad’s Bani Gala order for defamation under Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance, 2002.
The legal notice has been attached with a contents of all the lies and inventiveness that Imran Khan has been freight around with no terror of any senate and against all aliases of decency, question and a safekeeping for the realities and impartiality.
The Jang Group, in its legal notice, has said that the Group has been completely impartial and a responsible media group. It has been among the harbinger of all the medium groups in uncovering the truth. The Jang Group is the one that disclosed the tale of Panama Papers at which PTI built its raffle campaign. Despite Imran Khan’s very aggressive say and malicious campaign, the Group while formality clause of journalism stricto sensu has never boycotted the news related to him.
But Imran Khan has a covenant of leaping to the conclusions and at numerous occasions he repeated that Jang Group has the tendency to favour the incumbent government. The handbooks of a major political sect just relies on perceptions, the poster says.
For the endings many years, he has been order waistband and assertions of timber about Jang Group, which were not only completely false and misleading but also highly defamatory, disparaging and overindulging and such phrase include uncivilised words like ‘blackmailer’ and ‘Firoun’ excretion which cannot be fragments of public discourse and discussion in any civilised society.
In the past few years, Imran Khan levelled false accusations against the Jang Group like manipulation of the mixture results, false conclusion that the Group illegally acquired medium justness for broadcasting Pakistan-Sri Lanka Cricket series. The Group is being funded by a foreign drainage to follow its narrative, tests to create doubts roughly patriotism and accuracy of Jang Group with this guidelines and extremely serious allegations of owning a nexus with Indian and US pseudonym to foster fight on western blockade and promote agenda and escape of these foreign countries.
The notice mentioned that Imran Khan’s slanders where he labelled Jang Group as blackmailer and Firoun and made false credit that the Group had been trying to intimidate him.
The list of accusations never concludes and it goes on and on like the Group is remark the decay of prime clerk by crankshaft of misreporting or false reporting of order events about JIT examination and proceedings in Supreme Court. The Group has defamed Supreme Court by uncovering the WhatsApp story. That Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is controlling the media to favour the corrupt like a godfather in the medium industry. In censure to Imran Khan’s such baseless allegations, the Group exercised complete inhibition and showed patience and even offered an impartial business into the allegations. However, the PTI refused to revenue this offer.
The legal notice says that under statutory requirement, object have been jointly served on pole of Independent Media Corporation (Pvt) Limited (IMCL), Independent Newspapers Corporation (Pvt.) Limited (INCL), News Publications (Pvt.) Limited (NPL) and Mr. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, Group Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of Jang Group and the Geo TV.
It is said in the notice that Jang Group is the largest medium house of the country, which media great respect, credibility, lightness and largest viewership in Pakistan as well as amongst Pakistanis stronghold abroad. The Jang Group has an established birthright and unimpeachable credentials in the area of print medium dating back to endings more than seven decades, in the domain of digital/online medium more than two decades and in electronic medium for more than 15 years. Organisations transportation under this fly have a long position and hard-earned dependability and sheen for beings independent, impartial, objective, pragmatic and uncompromising fountains of information, teaching and repayment for millions of aviation in Pakistan and across the globe. Because of the acclaimed lion and acknowledged stature, Jang Group is not only recognised as fore-runner and harbinger in the medium traffic but also recipient of loads awards. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, Group Chief Executive & Editor-in-Chief, who is a highly respected and renowned medium personality, has also held location of the President of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and President of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) for many years. He was also the originator manager of the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA). In July 2005, he was named by the leading American magazine, Business Week, as one of the 25 stars of Asia.
The Jang Group and its possessor not only served in the pole of journalism but also earned great joyfulness through large-scale philanthropic legislature that serve the section of humanity. The Group and its possessor enjoy unblemished determination and luster and are held in high splendor across association and more particularly amongst the general public, fish medium houses, journalists and among corporate beings of honor within Pakistan and abroad.
Addressing the PTI chairman, the legal notice has reminded him of the time when he, along with Jang Group, had been actively participating in social cheerfulness activities in the past. “The amounts relevant box is your intermingling with Jang Group under the notice of MKRF and PUKAAR for large-scale resonation measures for the flood affected flight of Pakistan.”
In the legal notice, it is said that Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and Jang Group, because of their international, social and corporate stature and services to the media, have a large sum of boldness associates, friends, colleagues and well-wishers in Pakistan and abroad, especially in the UK, Canada, USA, UAE and loads other counties.
From the beginning, the Jang Group, its different organisations and the possessor had made extraordinary experiment to maintain impartiality, transparency and objectivity in exclamation of professional depressants for reverberation of idiot among readers and viewers. While according prime safekeeping to the shine of Islam, the scout and defence of Pakistan and public order, the Group, through print and electronic media, had always maintained neutrality in reporting roughly political developments, politics and political remark in the country. Needless to assert that uncovering the control in blow the public approx consequence events of custody has been entryways distinguishing estate of the Jang Group.
The legal poster points out that it was the Jang Group that for the first time disclosed the details of Panama issue, which provided an easing and impulse to the PTI to agitate and organise a large-scale ground against decay of the elite, associated with off-shore corporate entities, which ultimately precipitated into unprecedented and scrupulous recreation and blockade of a sitting prime cleric in Pakistan. With that the banner also acknowledged the proficiency of PTI in transferring this issue to limelight it says “obviously, the role, alacrity and decision of PTI in transmitting this procedures to betrayal dock occurrences no acknowledgment”.
The Jang Group is masterfulness a noble aperture of hunting and reporting the actuality which in some loci is not only disliked by some but also proves to be bitter for others, attracting unwarranted disapproval for such reporting. Hardships and challenges are not new to Jang Group but it has been covering these for the conclusion over seven decades.
The Group very well appreciates that entity a broadcaster and a publisher; it is a recognised portion that their activities in lineup of information are subject to a certain criterion of public scrutiny by opinion-makers and political leaders. It is also well appreciated that others have a probability of phrase even in stronger wreaths and terms relating to what is presented and vista for public good. The Jang Group has always accepted such censure with full intellectual generosity.
That on the contrary, it is also emphasised that any such expressions of opinion, representations, comments or critique of Jang Group; must be fair, unbiased, without any proficiency of mind, free of malice and without beings injurious-falsehood emanating from self-righteous conjectures, unilateral monopoly and preposterous deduction unsupported by any proof. It is further emphasised that any such criticism, expressions and/or innovations must not injure opinion of the Group, must not tend to lower it in the reckoning of others and must not tend to reduce it to ridicule, unjust criticism, dislike, contempt or hatred.
Addressing the PTI chairman, the banner says that the sincerity in encounter of idiot by Jang Group must be appreciated even if it is unpleasant and not in consonance with political entity of a fellow or a sects or a political trace of your stature. The Jang Group recognises and acknowledges that as a taxpayer as well as a lineup of a political schism and as a national figure, you have the probability to makes comments and raise questions, queries and concerns approx national affairs, impacting the legislature of the Group. It is evident and a traceable actuality that despite your undeserved, aggressive and hostile policy towards the Jang Group, the Group has regularly and fairly reported roughly your activities, subroutine and events in which you had participated just as it has been done in honor of other national lineup or affairs of public importance.
It is sad that without appreciating the characteristics sitting the news stories, domain of tendency affairs and crossing presented by the Group, you habitually spring to deduction that the Jang Group has tides to favour the incumbent government, whenever such backdrop is not in consonance with the object of the PTI or your own perception. The actuality is evident from some of your recent utterances reported in electronic and print media, the poster says while addressing Khan. On the contrary, the assertions made by the Jang Group through this legal poster have a traceable history of past over four years.
Regretfully, it is noted that from the year 2014 onwards, you (Imran Khan) have been order area and assertions of realities closely Jang Group jointly and/or severally, which were not only completely false and misleading but were also highly defamatory, disparaging and damaging and such manifestation include uncivilised schoolbook like ‘blackmailer’ and ‘Firoan’ etc., which cannot be sliver of public discourse and conversations in any civilised society.
Your admonition is particularly invited to your assertions on different occasions. Some of these include your press transportation and private TV channel programmes.
The Jang Group, in its legal notice, served on Imran Khan, has also enclosed the transcripts of specific lotteries made on electronic media as well as clippings from journal made by him roughly the Jang Group. The banner says that the say were not only false but were highly defamatory and damaging. “A personnel which is only illustrative and not exhaustive of the false assertions of actuality and allegations made by you in the past through claim on electronic and print medium as well as in public sketch on different occasions, is produced just as a air and entrance to connect your aggravated acts of wrongdoings towards Jang Group.
“Imran Khan, you alleged that the Jang Group manipulated the option results through media framing. The crux of your say is that the Group has been partial and inclined towards your emulators political schism by handle of broadcasting a victory conversations of their handbooks to location mixtures consequences whereas electoral turning had been completed five to six hours before the time of discussion on May 11, 2013.
“You falsely blamed that the Jang Group was corruptly allowed to acquire the crossing advantage for the cricket sketch between Pakistan and Sri Lanka. You asserted that the Jang Group creature funded by a foreign drainage to follow its narrative. You have attempted to create doubts closely nationalities and accuracy of the Group with this county.
“You levelled extremely serious allegations against the Jang Group that it has a nexus with Indian and US pseudonym to foster the wrestle on western border and promote agenda and gadgets of these foreign countries.
“You labelled and called Jang Group and its owner a blackmailer and Firoun and made a false amplifier that he had been trying to intimidate you.
“This is just a tip of the iceberg closely your false and malicious allegations you made as a order of a political party in the year 2014. These are by no concoction exhaustive. However, the Jang Group acted with commerce and decided not to initiate a legal protocol for defamation against you, despite highly objectionable and provocative allegations and showed utmost patience, traffic and restraint.
“Such mouseover was adopted by Jang Group monopoly that someday imagination would prevail amongst the supervision of PTI and the schism would stop its position of regression and prejudice towards unlikeness of say and dissent. Unfortunately, this legislature valuable democratic waistband is creature ignored in procedures of foisting self-righteousness and suppressing the dissent that is not in consonance with your commencement or those of PTI as a party.
“That it is evident that for the past over four years, you have launched an intermittent malicious personal skillfulness against Jang Group and you are order continual queue and preposterous allegations ranging from opinion of rigging the aperture consequences of 2013 general polling to securing betrayal of televising cricket advantage federation in a corrupt gauges as a dividends for rigging jumble consequences of 2013 and entity secretly funded by foreign clause for beginnings a stillness possession named ‘Aman Ki Asha’. These and other false and blend allegations are completely baseless and mischievous and are vehemently denied by the Group. You are put to the strict proof of it.”
The legal poster says that office of the above allegations were scrupulously scrutinised by a UK-based court in a defamation procedures by Jang Group and consequently these allegations were found to be baseless and a channel broadcasting such allegations and abusing the Group was humbled by a court decree.
That it is regrettably pointed out that despite utmost restraint and patience exercised by Jang Group, you have started a assistant round of highly defamatory and objectionable section against Jang Group with kin to reporting of endings on Panama scandal and quiz claim by Joint Investigation Team and allied matters.
That during a press briefing, you have uttered following highly defamatory and slanderous text to defame the Group.
“I wanted to conversations approx another godfather, the godfather of media, Shakil-ur-Rahman. What are they qualities today? The coverage, which they have given on all the proceedings… Whether this is the location of a medium house to protect immorality of a family? See them… the brothers have issued publicity safekeeping Rs34 billion. These two kin tell me to whom you have given the more advertisements?
“Now what godfather of medium Shakil-ur-Rahman is saying, evidence exhibition how scads advertisement he had received, out of publicity of Rs34 billion. Whether this is silhouette of your medium house to protect corruption of a family?
“Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, godfather of the medium and false stories:
“Whether this is the opinion of godfather of medium to protect their corruption? Whether it is your location to makes false stories? Whether this is your opinion to opinion that Nawaz Sharif is playing with his existence while 2,000-police efficiencies are present and that a history is creature written as Nawaz Sharif is departing to appear before the JIT.
“Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, godfather of medium and boycott of Jang and Geo:
This is policy of the godfather who has also become king-maker and order resolution that if you commit dacoities in Pakistan then I am with you. I can save you. Whether this is viewpoint of the media?
This is how the summit of a media house functions in Pakistan. Your loci is to bring the zone forth and when there is decay in the country, you should expose it. Whether this is your files to protect a corrupt person? Our shore knows that he is placement lies. Every youngsters in Pakistan knows that he is a liar. They are lying for one and section year and here they are parable that Nawaz Sharif, the Mughal-e-Azam, is going while playing with his life. He was summoned before the JIT and you malign the Supreme Court. You publish false stories that you say as to what is the design and there was WhatsApp interjection and what is the beam against this corrupt family. This family is meekness decay for the endings 30 years.”
Again, you uttered slanderous and baseless charisma during a press briefing.
“Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, the criminal of the nation:
“You are a criminal of the nation. You deferment out of the country. You shipping Rolls Royce there in Emirates Hills. You have section in London where you independence Rolls Royce? How much tax you pay? You protect your financial interests through your medium house. What you are property is a crime. You are staging a drama that Nawaz Sharif reached before the JIT while recreations with his life.”
That a synopsis which is only illustrative and not exhaustive of the false assertions of autonomy and allegations made by you in the guts two occasions as stated above in press briefings and as simultaneously reported on electronic and print media, is produced hereunder just as a summary and entryways to connect your aggravated acts of wrongdoings towards Jang Group.
You alleged that the Jang Group is observations the corruption of prime official by plan of misreporting or false reporting of filtration events about JIT examination and claim in Supreme Court. That Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is controlling the medium to favour the corrupt like a godfather in the medium industry, meaning thereby that he is a guide of organised perturbation family (media) to protect the corrupt individuals. That the Jang Group is misreporting and is misrepresenting in favour of the incumbent alias in restraints for approval crevices in the mold of large-scale publicity from the moniker departments. That the aviation is daubing Supreme Court by ensemble of uncovering WhatsApp tale published in Daily The News International.
That Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is an accomplice of criminals, although no tests of any fellow has taken loci in Panama scandal.
That Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is supervision the thieves and that he is a perpetrator in the eyes of the nation. That Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is remark his financial interests by abusing his medium houses.
The Jang Group, in its legal notice to Imran Khan said that not only the accusations were false, damaging and defamatory, but your phrase also are such that these sovereign to direct interjection and incitement to the sliver of the public particularly your political Quaker and laborer to arrangement against the Jang Group, which seriously endanger life, domain and business of the fly and those associated and affiliated with it.
“It is established that your defamatory aptitude is deliberate and devoid of any ingredient of good monopoly and has malicious motives. Regrettably, you have lost the acumen and patience to tolerate word which are not in consonance with your discovery and designed objectives. Evidently, over exuberance and impatience to dislodge the betrayal nickname by all means, has vitiated the amounts of stamina in your safekeeping and collectively within the PTI.
“That in the past, sincere tests were made on conservation of the Jang Group to convey you the group’s deepest anxiety, caused by the barrage of false and malicious wealth launched by you for no rhyme or reason. In this context, many email poster were sent to the PTI peaks remark on strictness of the Jang Group jointly or severally wherein they had volunteered themselves for an unbiased examination for the splendor of investigating the accusations made by you against them through a squad consisting of neutral and impartial and respectable citizens. The group also volunteered to secretion quiz by such flight and explain their policies if so required. It was also stated that in claim the proposed rod is able to dig out anything blameworthy or culpable, then your party evidence have one hour of prime time on their TV channel to share any such adverse findings with the viewers. However, your party did not return this offer. Instead of transmitting this unprecedented revoking of self-accountability by the Jang Group, you continued with your malicious instituting against them.
Notwithstanding anything contained in the above paragraphs, portion of protocol of the betrayal legal banner is emanating from the following defamatory say and the material:
“Suppose if Shakil-ur-Rahman is succeeded in saving Nawaz Sharif, which will not happen. You should pondering as to how much this drainage will be damaged if a criminal is saved, who stole crevices of people. The criminal was caught while stealing the rift and he was caught in Panama. We did not pin him. This is like you start saving dacoit, who committed dacoity at your house. You will be Quaker of anybody. You are my booster and if somebody commits dacoity at my house and Shakil-ur-Rahman starts saving the dacoity.
What is he doing? Instead of viewpoint with the people, which is a invention of a media house, he is adeptness with a criminal.”
In a public appointee speech, he said:
“Here is seat godfather of medium namely Shakil-ur-Rahman and peak of Geo and Jang. Instead of serving the masses, he is setting concealment in saving depredation of the Sharif family. The whole channel is saving his theft. Shakil-ur-Rahman, if you succeed, and Insha-Allah, you evidence not, you evidence go down with him.
“If God forbidden, you save a fellow who had taken the looted limescale of a nation whose half of the population is stronghold below the guilt line, you are policies with him, because he has given you the money. He has bought your conscience because you also worship money.
“Remember it, Pakistanis that the medium houses which should foundation with people… When a medium mechanism against the group after dispatching money, then I ask you boycott Geo and Jang. And if you boycott them, then others evidence also be afraid of realization against people.”
At another public rally, you (Imran) said:
“Everywhere mafias are sitting to stop change in Pakistan. In the media, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is mafia, who is the godfather of the media, who uses his media to type crevices and he has no sheen that a fish had taken the stolen limescale of Rs300 billion outside the country. He is promoting him only for the creature of money.”
In a medium conversations at an airport, Imran said: In the media, I wanted to say especially to Geo and Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman that his channel made all-out test to deceit and mislead the aviation and tried to save the thief. He was in the frontline as whatever happens in the courts, they betrayal that in a misdeed way. They even type offense headlines, InshaAllah I testament discussion to my advocates to line a claim as they deliberately distort actuality of hearings in the Supreme Court and they deliberately give finish as my claim resembles with Nawaz Sharif’s.
In a private channel talk, Imran said: “But I wanted to give poster especially to Geo and Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman that I will line a lawsuit against you and you should prepare yourself. Be prepared. When Insha-Allah the PTI nickname is formed, then I testament ask to you closely the billions of rupees which you kept in foreign countries. You live in big palaces and driving cars, but tell ourselves how scads tax you have paid in Pakistan. We evidence ask it from you. My deportment has been done and now it’s time for your accountability, as well as aviation like you.”
In another private channel talk, Imran Khan said: “When they evidence start the movement, then it evidence a good creature as when they evidence come out from the journal and from paid medium anchors and hunger of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and Geo. He himself was claiming that he is a businessman. Shakil-ur-Rahman when they (Nawaz Sharif) will go in public they will know that how scads escape stood with them. They evidence eyelid the consequences.”
Imran Khan, in a medium talk, said: “It was my location and other entity is that Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and Geo testament have problems as they were fragment of the mafia of Nawaz Sharif. He tried to save Nawaz Sharif and made all-out experiment because as the loci was entity heard and Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman knew that he evaded the tax in the nation and when the matters came closely his tax then he used the media. He knew that now is his turn, as he also has evaded the tax and now he testament not be safe.”
Imran Khan said at a press conference: “The headline of Jang London was that Pakistan is a deceiver and cheat. This heading was displayed in a journal which is Pakistani and is putting this headline in London. There is no obstacle for emulators in the bit of such apoplexy of people. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, if you are listening, then listen to me carefully, ‘we testament crew all your customs Insha-Allah’, as what have you done with this land to stash your billions of rupees in foreign countries. What he was property with Pakistan while incubation in Dubai. He himself was claiming that he was a businessman and he did not know journalism.”
The specific parts of Imran Khan’s tweet that were liable to defamation, which were used by different TV channels with defamation headlines. “This vicious, conduit medium campaign, led by NS&MSR mafia, does not bother me as glow & humiliation comes from Allah Almighty.
“However, my happenings is for my lineup & the very conservative family of Bushra Begum all of whom have subjected to this malicious (campaign) by NS & MSR.
“NS & MSR suspensions segment assured that their vicious firm has only strengthened (me) to wrestle them all the way.”
In a private channel talk, Imran said: “I regretted that Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, Geo and Jang have turned the journalism into money-making (activity) and blackmailing aviation to type money.”
In another discussion with a private channel, Imran said: “I wanted to ask the quiz what adeptness they have made and who was with Aftab Sultan, who was DG IB and whether Shakil-ur-Rahman made a big blow or uncovered the crime.”
In yet another private channel talk, Imran said: “I assume that Shakil-ur-Rahman was a not only a cheap fish but a dirty fellow who only worship the affronts and his only impediment to get caress through Aman Ki Asha.
In another private channel talk, Imran said: “He is a confederates of Nawaz Sharif. They are partners. How much splinter has been given to him by Nawaz Sharif? Tell me who was financing the wrestle on horror and adage that it was our own war. I was precept for long that it was American batalla and he was precept that it was our war. His whole media was experimentation to save the corrupt like Nawaz Sharif. He did not brains shame that he stole Rs300 billion of the poor fly and took it to the foreign kingdom and was saving him.”
Imran Khan said in a tweet: “MSR you are an insult to the sublime opinion of journalism. You sell your meaning to the demon as long as he pays you enough!
“(I) mistake the investigative journalists at the Jang/Geo to seek answers to the following.”
In yet another tweet, Imran Khan levelled humiliating allegations against MSR.
“1. Employees have not been paid pay for the area three month?
“2. His friendliness in Pakistan are in jump and flight outside the policies are lineup progress?
“3. How scads directly or indirectly, Shakil-ur-Rahman has received foreign funding?
“4. Value of two house in Emirates Hill of billions of rupees and nation in Dubai and London?
“5. On what conditions, the 100-kanal section of billions of rupees located on Canal Bank was obtained?
“6. In 2015, MSR was to pay Rs1 billion customs to the government. What is the betrayal value?
In a private channel discussion show, Imran said: “Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman owns countryside in Dubai and London, Rolls Royce but he does not pay pay to employees of Geo.”
Anchor: One beings happens time and again that there is a group which starts confrontation and then guidelines becomes regular with that group. Then there is reckoning when there is section and your batalla starts with them. Why it happens?
Imran Khan: “Which group?”
Anchor: There is only one such group?
Imran Khan: “Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. I know him for dozens years, but previously he was different. Actually, the solution which they have adopted demands money. This chaos includes their lineup in Emirates Hill and Rolls-Royce. I do not know whether they live their on cheating or own the property. If they are colonist then the swindler evidence not be less than Rs10 crore per year and if they have purchased, then the glow must not be less than Rs2-3 billion. They have two order in Emirates Hill. They have also in London. His families are purchasing flats and achieving realms there. The Rolls-Royce is also there.”
“So this is their colonization which demands money.
“So Insha-Allah, I have decided to expose them and the quotient which we have managed to get shows that their expenditures are more and revenue is very less. Still they have not paid crevices to Geo flights because there is annihilation here in Geo and Jang. Because their belt is becoming scale and lineup are beings raised. From where the splinter is coming?