ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Courtroom (SC) of Pakistan has stayed proceedings in defamation case following a petition filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan.
A 3-member bench headed by Justice Ayesha Malik issued the injunction, whereas notices have been served on PM Shehbaz Sharif, directing him to submit a response.
The court docket said that the case might be scheduled for listening to on the earliest attainable date.
It’s noteworthy that in 2017, Shehbaz Sharif filed a defamation go well with value Rs1 billion towards PTI founder Imran Khan. The trial court docket had beforehand restricted the PTI founder’s proper to protection, and the case within the trial court docket had reached the stage of inspecting proof.
The PTI founder had alleged that he was provided PKR 1 billion by Shehbaz Sharif to stay silent concerning the Panama Papers case. In response, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif rejected the claims as false and filed the defamation go well with.
The trial is ongoing within the Periods Courtroom in Lahore. The trial court docket had barred the PTI founder from submitting a reply as a consequence of delays, a call later upheld by the Lahore Excessive Courtroom, which said that the petitioner had unnecessarily delayed in offering a response.
In Could 2025, PM Shehbaz Sharif recorded his assertion through video hyperlink earlier than the trial court docket, whereas cross-examination of witnesses Atta Tarar and Malik Ahmed Khan has been accomplished by the authorized group of the PTI founder.
