The Sindh High Court (SHC) admitted for hearing on Saturday the defamation lawsuit filed by Dr Farooq Sattar, Deputy Convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Coordination Committee, against a TV channel’s anchorperson.
The hearing of the case shall start from May 15.
In the petition, Sattar’s counsel Barrister Farogh Naseem submitted that the host of a programme on a television channel had distorted facts to smear the political image MQM chief Altaf Hussain deliberately.
“The anchorperson persisted in making baseless allegations in spite of clear and unequivocal statements to the contrary by the main characters involved in the infamous Asghar Khan case,” it was stated. “The unfounded allegations have hurt the sentiments of millions of supporters of Hussain.”
SHC admits MQM’s defamation lawsuit
