PPP serves Rs10b legal notice to Imran.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan People's Party yesterday served Rs 10 billion legal notice on Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan for levelling terror allegations against former President Asif Zardari or render unconditional apology. Imran Khan has been given two weeks' time to apologise for the 'baseless' allegations that Zardari. Imran had claimed that Asif Zardari hired terrorists to assassinate him. The notice issued by PPP Farooq Naek stated that the allegations hurled by the PTI chairman have maligned, smeared and dishonoured his client's name and reputation within the country as well as abroad as the same is an attack on his personal life as well as on his political career.

The notice said Imran Khan 'committed utterly unjustified and inexcusable defamation just to malign our client's reputation in Pakistan as well as in the world causing severe agony, mental stress and loss of reputation.' It added: 'You are, therefore, hereby called upon to render unconditional apology from our client, on television, print and...

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