Prime Minister Imran Khan’s former Special Assistant and Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari has won the first round of defamation case against Reham Khan, a broadcaster and former wife of PM Imran Khan, reported The News.
At a trial of preliminary issues before the London High Court, Mrs. Justice Karen Steyn determined the meaning of eight publications complained by Zulfi Bukhari including a YouTube broadcast on Roosevelt Hotel by Reham Khan carrying four allegations and four tweets, retweets. Justice Steyn did not accept Khan’s assessment of the publications’ meaning and accepted Zulfi Bukhari’s submission instead.
The defamation claim started over a YouTube broadcast made by Reham Khan on December 6, 2019, from the UK’s jurisdiction, alleging that Bukhari had a personal interest in the sale of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel, owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). She further charged that Pakistan’s national assets were being sold to help people like Zulfi Bukhari in an act of “robbery”.
