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Nasir Butt wins second £100000 defamation case against HUM News as UK judge accepts evidence of Nawaz Sharif victimisation

A Judge at the UK High Court has accepted that PMLN’s UK Vice President Nasir Butt was victimised by the Pakistani media and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) government in 2019 because he was a loyalist of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif – after secretly filming judge Arshad Malik who confessed that he was blackmailed to declare Nawaz Sharif guilty in the Al-Azizia Reference and had no choice but to convict Nawaz Sharif to save his life.

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Master of the Queen’s Bench Division at the Royal Courts of Justice Mr John Marshall Anthony Dagnall said this while giving his decision in favour of Nasir Butt’s defamation claim against a private Pakistani news channel which had made allegations against Nasir Butt following the release of judge Arshad Malik’s video by Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

The judge John Marshall Anthony Dagnall said it was evident that Nasir Butt was targeted by the then establishment and the PTI-led government and he was labelled a murderer, criminal and a drug-dealer by Firdous Ashiq Awan, the Information Minister for the then government, only because Nasir Butt had filmed the former accountability judge Arshad Malik who had confessed in the secretly recorded video that he was blackmailed and pressurized to give a guilty verdict against Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia case.

Accountability court judge Arshad Malik had acquitted Nawaz Sharif in the Flagship reference on Dec 24, 2018, and sentenced him to seven-year imprisonment in Al-Azizia reference. PTI govt launched a huge crackdown against Nasir Butt after Maryam Nawaz addressed an explosive press conference on 6 July 2019 in Lahore and revealed that the accountability judge had contacted Nasir Butt and told him that he was feeling “guilt” and “having nightmares” after announcing the “unjust” verdict against Nawaz Sharif and then played a video showing Nasir Butt and the judge talking to each other.


Nasir Butt issued defamation proceedings against the private news channel at the UK High Court over two broadcasts on 6th July 2019 and 23rd August 2019. During the programme on 23rd August 2019, three prominent and well-known anchors repeated allegations of murder against Nasir Butt and further alleged that Nawaz Sharif had helped Nasir Butt in preventing his conviction in the murder case and that he used to take Maryam Nawaz Sharif shopping when she was in Jeddah with her father during exile.

Nasir Butt had sued the news channel, pleading that Firdous Ashiq Awan and the anchors had lied about him, defamed him and ran propaganda against him. The judge accepted the evidence advanced by Nasir Butt that he was unfairly attacked by the TV anchors and the minister. Over the past two and a half years of these proceedings, the court passed several orders against the news channel for failing to engage and failing to defend the claim.

The news channel was also ordered to pay costs on four separate occasions before the final hearing. At the final hearing to determine the damages award for Nasir Butt in his claim against the channel, the judge ruled in favour of Nasir Butt’s defamation claim awarding him substantial damages - Nasir Butt had issued a claim for £100,000.

The Judge also granted costs to his lawyers and accepted Nasir Butt’s claim as credible that there had been a witch-hunt by the media and the then government just because he had exposed a grave injustice against Nawaz Sharif by bringing to the forefront the truth about how the former premier was jailed and wronged.

Master Dagnall said he accepted that there was no evidence that the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif prevented the further investigation and prosecution of Nasir Butt in relation to allegations that he had committed a murder in Rawalpindi in mid 90s. The judge said the news channel did not defend the allegations and accepted therefore that there was no truth in any of the allegations that had been made after the video was released.

The judge also said that allegations of criminality against Nasir Butt had caused him distress and difficulties, his family was attacked in London and Nasir Butt suffered enormously as a result and therefore he deserved compensation at the higher level. Master Dagnall made reference to an earlier ruling by the Honourable Mr Justice Saini in April this year when the judge issued judgement in favour of Nasir Butt.

Mr Justice Saini had, in April 2022, also granted an injunction preventing the channel from repeating these allegations directly or indirectly, or by its employees, servants or agents publish or cause to be published any statement referring to Nasir Butt to imply or suggest that he was “a murderer and member of an illegal drug marketing network who has left Pakistan in order to avoid prosecution for criminal offences” and that Nasir Butt’s “connections with Nawaz Sharif prevented the further investigation and prosecution of the Claimant in relation to allegations that he had committed murder”.

After the judgement, the news channel started negotiations to settle the case out of court to pay Nasir Butt damages, but the talks broke down. Lawyers for Nasir Butt, instead proceeded with court action and went all the way to trial where the judge heard from lawyers of both sides, read all the evidence presented and then made the ruling in favour of Nasir Butt.

The judge said he accepted the evidence that Nasir Butt’s brother was killed in Pakistan in 1996 by a gang and Nasir Butt had to flee to UK.





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UK’s FBI gave clean chit to Shehbaz a year before defamation victory against Daily Mail​

By Murtaza Ali Shah
December 21, 2022




LONDON: Daily Mail’s case against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was dealt a heavy blow when Britain’s anti-corruption and anti-crimes super organisation gave a clean chit to Shahbaz Sharif and his son Suleman Sharif at the end of September 2021 in a high-profile money-laundering and public office misuse investigation that could have ended the political career of Mr Sharif.
Investigators and lawyers who have studied both cases agree that Shehbaz Sharif gained a clear upper hand against Daily Mail and David Rose’s allegations of corruption when the National Crime Agency (NCA) – known as equivalent of American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – investigated Shehbaz Sharif for over two years in association with Imran Khan’s government and failed to find any evidence of corruption or wrongdoing either in Britain, Dubai or offshore jurisdictions.

Interestingly, when the NCA started its investigation against Shehbaz Sharif on 19 December 2019 just around five months after the publication of David Rose’s article on 14 July 2019 in Mail Online and Mail on Sunday titled “Did the family of Pakistani politician who has become the poster boy for British overseas aid STEAL funds meant for earthquake victims” and the NCA produced a copy of the same article before the court to convince the judge why assets of Mr Sharif, his son and Zulfikar Ahmed should be seized.

In the first week of December 2019, NAB’s Lahore Director General Shehzad Saleem met in London the NCA’s Operations Manager Investigations at International Corruption Unit where the UK investigation chief was briefed about Shehbaz Sharif cases in Pakistan.

The NCA had told a judge at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court that Mr Sharif and his family were being probed in Pakistan related to Ashiana Housing Scheme, Ramzan Sugar Mills.

The entire NCA case was based on thousands of pages of FIA and NAB investigations into Shahbaz Sharif and his family members as the ARU had successfully convinced the NCA that not only Daily Mail’s article was factual but that there was evidence available how Britain was used by the Sharifs to launder money and wealth.
 
Nasir Butt wins second £100000 defamation case against HUM News as UK judge accepts evidence of Nawaz Sharif victimisation

A Judge at the UK High Court has accepted that PMLN’s UK Vice President Nasir Butt was victimised by the Pakistani media and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) government in 2019 because he was a loyalist of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif – after secretly filming judge Arshad Malik who confessed that he was blackmailed to declare Nawaz Sharif guilty in the Al-Azizia Reference and had no choice but to convict Nawaz Sharif to save his life.

1022515_1964003_Nasir-Butt_akhbar.jpg


Master of the Queen’s Bench Division at the Royal Courts of Justice Mr John Marshall Anthony Dagnall said this while giving his decision in favour of Nasir Butt’s defamation claim against a private Pakistani news channel which had made allegations against Nasir Butt following the release of judge Arshad Malik’s video by Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

The judge John Marshall Anthony Dagnall said it was evident that Nasir Butt was targeted by the then establishment and the PTI-led government and he was labelled a murderer, criminal and a drug-dealer by Firdous Ashiq Awan, the Information Minister for the then government, only because Nasir Butt had filmed the former accountability judge Arshad Malik who had confessed in the secretly recorded video that he was blackmailed and pressurized to give a guilty verdict against Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia case.

Accountability court judge Arshad Malik had acquitted Nawaz Sharif in the Flagship reference on Dec 24, 2018, and sentenced him to seven-year imprisonment in Al-Azizia reference. PTI govt launched a huge crackdown against Nasir Butt after Maryam Nawaz addressed an explosive press conference on 6 July 2019 in Lahore and revealed that the accountability judge had contacted Nasir Butt and told him that he was feeling “guilt” and “having nightmares” after announcing the “unjust” verdict against Nawaz Sharif and then played a video showing Nasir Butt and the judge talking to each other.


Nasir Butt issued defamation proceedings against the private news channel at the UK High Court over two broadcasts on 6th July 2019 and 23rd August 2019. During the programme on 23rd August 2019, three prominent and well-known anchors repeated allegations of murder against Nasir Butt and further alleged that Nawaz Sharif had helped Nasir Butt in preventing his conviction in the murder case and that he used to take Maryam Nawaz Sharif shopping when she was in Jeddah with her father during exile.

Nasir Butt had sued the news channel, pleading that Firdous Ashiq Awan and the anchors had lied about him, defamed him and ran propaganda against him. The judge accepted the evidence advanced by Nasir Butt that he was unfairly attacked by the TV anchors and the minister. Over the past two and a half years of these proceedings, the court passed several orders against the news channel for failing to engage and failing to defend the claim.

The news channel was also ordered to pay costs on four separate occasions before the final hearing. At the final hearing to determine the damages award for Nasir Butt in his claim against the channel, the judge ruled in favour of Nasir Butt’s defamation claim awarding him substantial damages - Nasir Butt had issued a claim for £100,000.

The Judge also granted costs to his lawyers and accepted Nasir Butt’s claim as credible that there had been a witch-hunt by the media and the then government just because he had exposed a grave injustice against Nawaz Sharif by bringing to the forefront the truth about how the former premier was jailed and wronged.

Master Dagnall said he accepted that there was no evidence that the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif prevented the further investigation and prosecution of Nasir Butt in relation to allegations that he had committed a murder in Rawalpindi in mid 90s. The judge said the news channel did not defend the allegations and accepted therefore that there was no truth in any of the allegations that had been made after the video was released.

The judge also said that allegations of criminality against Nasir Butt had caused him distress and difficulties, his family was attacked in London and Nasir Butt suffered enormously as a result and therefore he deserved compensation at the higher level. Master Dagnall made reference to an earlier ruling by the Honourable Mr Justice Saini in April this year when the judge issued judgement in favour of Nasir Butt.

Mr Justice Saini had, in April 2022, also granted an injunction preventing the channel from repeating these allegations directly or indirectly, or by its employees, servants or agents publish or cause to be published any statement referring to Nasir Butt to imply or suggest that he was “a murderer and member of an illegal drug marketing network who has left Pakistan in order to avoid prosecution for criminal offences” and that Nasir Butt’s “connections with Nawaz Sharif prevented the further investigation and prosecution of the Claimant in relation to allegations that he had committed murder”.

After the judgement, the news channel started negotiations to settle the case out of court to pay Nasir Butt damages, but the talks broke down. Lawyers for Nasir Butt, instead proceeded with court action and went all the way to trial where the judge heard from lawyers of both sides, read all the evidence presented and then made the ruling in favour of Nasir Butt.

The judge said he accepted the evidence that Nasir Butt’s brother was killed in Pakistan in 1996 by a gang and Nasir Butt had to flee to UK.





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Haram he khana ha tu na ? Koi hilala ka nawala bhi kha lay , kun kuttay sor corrupt logon k pichwady songhta aor phir unki smell ki tareef ma laga rehta ha ?
 
ناصر بٹ کی بےگناہی ثابت ہونے میں نواز شریف کی بےگناہی مضمر ہے
Nawaz sharif dunya ka corrupt tareen aor dunya ka harami tareen admi ha , tu lakh usky bary ma koshash kar lay woh haram ka hilal nhi reh skta
 
Nawaz sharif dunya ka corrupt tareen aor dunya ka harami tareen admi ha , tu lakh usky bary ma koshash kar lay woh haram ka hilal nhi reh skta
دینا کی کسی آزاد عدالت میں ثابت کرو
 
Proof if it was needed, it pays dividends to play Dalal for NS & Co..
 
All hail ganja

Without any evidence you sit on TV and call anyone a thief, traitor, murderer, drug kingpin and when they take you to court and you have to pay millions of dollars in damages against you, by calling Nawaz Sharif bald you can sooth your sore ego

By the way, you must have said this to Muhammad Maalik, hain na??
 
Without any evidence you sit on TV and call anyone a thief, traitor, murderer, drug kingpin and when they take you to court and you have to pay millions of dollars in damages against you, by calling Nawaz Sharif bald you can sooth your sore ego

By the way, you must have said this to Muhammad Maalik, hain na??

Agr itna hi courts ka ehteram hai to pesh kyun nhn hotay FIA case main? Woh kyun dabwa rahay ho?
 
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