Meesha Shafi says public allegations of sexual harassment against singer Ali Zafar were made as a ‘last resort’ when all else failed and ‘not part of a larger plan or conspiracy’.<\/p>\n
The musician said this while recording her statement in the one billion rupees defamation case filed by Ali Zafar against her.<\/p>\n
Throughout the over three-hour-long hearing presided by Additional Session Judge, Amjad Ali Shah, Meesha Shafi affirmed her claim that Ali Zafar had harassed her on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n
She described how all the instances of harassment took place.<\/p>\n
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Ali Gul Pir Criticizes A Certain Pop Star With His New Song [Video]<\/a><\/p>\n Meesha’s lawyers, Nighat Dad and Saqib Jillani, and Zafar’s legal council, Hisham Ahmed Khan, were present in court. Her mother, Saba Hamid, was also present at the hearing.<\/p>\n The Reluctant Fundamentalist<\/em><\/strong> actress stressed that she:<\/p>\n “Never wished to go public with the allegations but had no choice when it became clear that she might have to work with Ali Zafar despite having told the management.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Highlighting her right to a ‘dignified workplace and an harassment-free environment<\/em>‘, Meesha told the court that she tried her level best to internally resolve the matter.<\/p>\n On the issue of her public declaration of the alleged harassment being a conspiracy, Meesha presented her WhatsApp messages in the court to clarify that she did not know any of the women that also came forward with allegations against Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n It should be mentioned here that after the Leela<\/em><\/strong> singer went public, many women came forth with similar experiences of sexual harassment they allegedly faced at the hands of Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n At the end of the session, Amjad Ali Shah adjourned the hearing till December 20. Further witnesses will be called in the next hearing.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Ali Zafar Becomes a Social Media Meme After Crying on TV<\/a><\/p>\n In a media talk outside the court, the Waar<\/em><\/strong> actress said the lawsuit was a pressure tactic and she had already faced financial losses since going public about the harassment.<\/p>\n “Ali Zafar filed the defamation case to intimidate and pressurize me … I bore the losses and [was] defamed and, as a woman, I suffered great damage to my reputation, as well as financial loss. It was detrimental to my mental health too,”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, Meesha has filed a two billion rupees lawsuit against Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meesha Shafi says public allegations of sexual harassment against singer Ali Zafar were made as a ‘last resort’ when all else failed and ‘not part of a larger plan or conspiracy’. The musician said this while recording her statement in the one billion rupees defamation case filed by Ali Zafar against her. Throughout the over three-hour-long hearing presided by Additional […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":234220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,1298,2199,1293],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-culture","9":"category-featured","10":"category-lollywood"},"wps_subtitle":"Thoughts?","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meesha-vs-Ali-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meesha-vs-Ali-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meesha-vs-Ali.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Crime","Culture","Featured","Lollywood"],"title_text":"Meesha Shafi Reveals Why She Had to Go Public Against Ali Zafar","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,1298,2199,1293&exclude=241629","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241629"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=241629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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