Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Rehman Malik has served another defamation notice of Ra 500 billion to American filmmaker Cynthia Ritchie regarding her statements in her media talk outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday.
Rehman Malik’s attorneys served the notice over what he claims are false and baseless accusations. Dubbing them full of malice, and highly derogatory and defamatory, and a pack of lies to damage his national and international reputation.
Cynthia Ritchie had stated that Rehman Malik had told her horror stories about former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. She says her tweet about Benazir Bhutto was taken out of context.
IHC: I address how my tweet about BB was taken out of context, my respect as PK's first female PM, and who told me those horrific rape stories of BB – the same "Security Advisor" who was no where to be seen during her assassination – @RehmanMalik.
With @ImranFeroze and #ABZ_Law pic.twitter.com/lSyiLyK4Qn
— Cynthia D. Ritchie, M. Ed (@CynthiaDRitchie) June 22, 2020
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According to Geo, Rehman Malik said that he ‘considers it below his dignity to respond to the baseless and malicious allegations leveled against him by a foreign lady‘. Therefore, he decided to take the matter to court.
“Cynthia Ritchie’s accusations are a pack of lies. I strongly reject them, … [She] levelled undue and baseless allegations on television programmes, … I will have her answer for her lies in court,”
Rehman Malik has already served the US blogger two defamation notices, for her harassment allegations and the rape claim against him, worth 500 billion rupees and 50 billion rupees respectively.
#CynthiaIsPrideOfPakistan claims that in 2011 @MediaCellPPP PM Yousuf Raza Gillani, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Federal Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin had raped her. @CynthiaDRitchie pic.twitter.com/zVJJh6ozyo
— Mohsin Bilal Khan (@MohsinBilalKhan) June 5, 2020
Cynthia Ritchie made the rape claim against the ex-senator in a tell-all social media livestream on June 9th.
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Cynthia Ritchie has also filed a petition in court seeking a case to be filed against Rehman Malik. She filed a petition for justice of peace-seeking directions for registration of a case against the PPP leader.
Her attorney Imran Faroz Malik filed the petition in the court of Additional Session Judge Javed Iqbal Sipra. The petition stated that the US citizen was facing death threats from Rehman Malik. As well as the fact that no action had been taken upon their application to Secretariat Police in this regard. Meanwhile, it is alleged that other PPP leaders continue to harass the petitioner.
