Ex-husband sues Muniba Mazari for defamation, wants Rs10 million

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ISLAMABAD: Former spouse of UN ambassador and TV host Muniba Mazari has filed a Rs 10 million lawsuit against the actress, blaming her for “distortion of facts and defamation”.

A local court in Islamabad will be taking up the case on December 7.

Former Pakistan Air Force official and presently a commercial pilot, Khurram Shahzad, married Mazari in December 2005, which ended with a divorce in 2015.

On February 27, 2008, the couple had met with a car accident near Jacobabad due to which Mazari lost both her legs.

Shahzad claimed he had left no stone unturned in giving his ex-wife a normal life, adding that he promoted her painting time and again in this regard.

Claiming her interest in the entertainment industry–that developed in the post-accident period– was not something him and his family were not comfortable with, he said Mazari had developed the passion for the field during her interactions with diplomatic circles in Islamabad.

“Similarly, being an esteemed officer of the defence forces, the plaintiff could not allow the defendant [Mazari] to continue such practices,” Shahzad stated in his petition.

Explicitly mentioning his “issues” with Mazari’s Ted Talk in the year 2015, he claimed that Mazari took the liberty to distort facts to her own interests.

During the Ted Talk, Mazari had said, “Six and a half years back I met a car accident. I was travelling from Quetta to my hometown in Rahim Yar Khan. The ‘driver’ slept and the car fell into a ditch.”
Contradicting Mazari’s said statement, Shahzad said it was she [Mazari] who was sleeping at the time while he was behind the wheel. He further claimed that the facts of their relationship had been largely distorted and his ex-wife’s account of their separation had humiliated him.
The petition goes on to state: “The words ‘he managed to jump out and saved himself’ used for the plaintiff are extremely painful and unbearable for the plaintiff and his family. By showing the plaintiff a very cruel and selfish person, the defendant [Mazari] is seeking attention and sympathy and eventually ‘high ratings’ through national and international media.”

Shahzad, who is now remarried and has a three-month-old child observed that his family was deeply depressed by Mazari’s revelations.

Following the news, UN ambassador Mazari took to Twitter where she stated that Shahzad had been involved in an extramarital affair and ended up marrying the woman soon after the divorce was filed.

Shahzad in lieu of his mental stress and character assassination has demanded Rs10 million in damages while requesting the court to constrain Mazari from defaming him in the future by directing the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to bar her from making such statements. In addition, he has requested the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to delete all of her “defamatory and libelous” comments against him on the internet.

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