Shoaib's lawyer terms Tafazzul's defamation notice as 'invalid'.

LAHORE -- Former fast bowler Shaoib Akhtar's lawyer Abuzar Salman Khan Niazi has replied to the legal defamation notice served on the pacer by Taffazul Rizvi, the lawyer of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on April 29.

Shoaib's lawyer has dismissed the legal notice of defamation by saying: 'That, the notice under reply, for all the intents and purposes, is manifestly invalid in law, defective, faulty, vague and circumlocutory and is liable to be rejected as the same fails to fulfill the mandatory requirement of Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance 2002.'

'A bare reading of the afore-stated section 8 makes it explicitly clear that no action in any form whatsoever under the ordinance can be initiated unless the mandatory requirement of specifying defamatory material in the notice under section 8 is satisfied,' the...

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