{"id":344593,"date":"2022-01-20T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=344593"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:59:34","slug":"lhc-allows-proceedings-of-meesha-shafis-defamation-suit-against-ali-zafar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/lhc-allows-proceedings-of-meesha-shafis-defamation-suit-against-ali-zafar\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC Allows Proceedings of Meesha Shafi&#8217;s Defamation Suit Against Ali Zafar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Songstress Meesha Shafi has finally been able to get a stay in an Ali Zafar case. The <strong><em>Zalima<\/em><\/strong> singer and her supporters rejoiced on Twitter following this development.<\/p>\n<p>Meesha Shafi won a civil revision challenge at the Lahore High Court against a stay order obtained by Ali Zafar. The stay order was against a defamation suit the <strong><em>Hot Mango Chutney Sauce<\/em><\/strong> singer had filed against the <strong><em>Teefa in Trouble<\/em><\/strong> actor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All those who have continued to support this cause against all odds are the reason I am celebrating today! IA this epic struggle will pave the way for a just and safe outcome for ALL SURVIVORS! Thank you to superwoman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sabhamid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sabhamid<\/a> for being my rock! This has not been easy \ud83d\ude2d for my<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MEESHA SHAFI (@itsmeeshashafi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsmeeshashafi\/status\/1483842326887870467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/meesha-shafi-hurt-by-personal-jibes-at-mom-saba-hameed-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meesha Shafi Hurt By Personal Jibes At Mom, Saba Hameed In Court<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>A trial court had issued the stay order on February 13, 2020, halting the proceedings of a civil defamation case filed by Meesha Shafi in 2019 under the Defamation Ordinance 2002 for false and defamatory statements made by Ali Zafar in the media and social media.<\/p>\n<p>In his application for a stay order against Meesha\u2019s defamation case, Ali Zafar had argued that Meesha\u2019s suit should &#8216;be stayed&#8217; until a separate defamation case filed by Ali Zafar is decided.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Lahore High Court has overturned this order by accepting a civil revision challenge filed by the <strong><em>Dasht-e-Tanhai<\/em><\/strong> singer.<\/p>\n<p>The civil revision challenge argued that the cause of action of the two suits is sufficiently different and the trial against the <strong><em>Chunno<\/em><\/strong> singer can proceed and Meesha Shafi\u2019s legal team can now pursue the case against Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/ali-zafar-offers-to-pay-for-meesha-shafis-travel-expenses-to-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Zafar Offers To Pay For Meesha Shafi&#8217;s Travel Expenses to Pakistan<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>Meesha Shafi had filed a case on September 17, 2019 concerning a defamatory smear campaign by Ali Zafar. In the lawsuit, the <strong><em>Aaya Laariye<\/em><\/strong> vocalist contended statements made by Ali Zafar on a private Pakistani news channel that falsely stated that she was a &#8216;liar&#8217;. As well as falsely stated that she made sexual harassment allegations to obtain fame and Canadian immigration. Ali Zafar had also stated that Meesha wanted to &#8216;become another Malala Yousafzai&#8217;, implying that Malala fabricated her assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songstress Meesha Shafi has finally been able to get a stay in an Ali Zafar case. The Zalima singer and her supporters rejoiced on Twitter following this development. Meesha Shafi won a civil revision challenge at the Lahore High Court against a stay order obtained by Ali Zafar. The stay order was against a defamation suit the Hot Mango Chutney [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/lhc-allows-proceedings-of-meesha-shafis-defamation-suit-against-ali-zafar\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":276320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2199,1291,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-social-media","9":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"Songstress Meesha Shafi has finally been able to get a stay in an Ali Zafar case.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ali-zafar-meesha-shafi-case-aqsa-ali-1200-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ali-zafar-meesha-shafi-case-aqsa-ali-1200-758x421.jpg",758,421,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ali-zafar-meesha-shafi-case-aqsa-ali-1200-e1597829306173.jpg",1000,556,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Featured","Social Media","TV &amp; Film"],"title_text":"LHC Allows Proceedings of Meesha Shafi\u2019s Defamation Suit Against Ali Zafar","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2199,1291,1297&exclude=344593","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344593","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=344593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344593"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=344593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}