Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), issued a defamation notice to Federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel on Tuesday for saying that traces of alcohol and cocaine were detected in the latter’s urine tests.
Under the Defamation Ordinance, 2002, the former premier has issued a legal notice to Imran Khan through his lawyer Abuzar Salman Khan Niazi for “dissemination and circulation of wrongful, baseless, false, misleading, erroneous, malicious, and defamatory information” during the minister’s May 26 press conference.
It said that Mr Patel falsely claimed that the PTI chief’s medical tests revealed traces of alcohol and cocaine in his urine sample and that Imran Khan’s “mental stability” was “questionable.”