14.07.2012
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
To:
1. Nabiha Meher Shaikh, ADDRESS DELETED
2. Ahmad Yusuf, ADDRESS DELETED
3. Urooj Zia, ADDRESS DELETED
BY COURIER, EMAIL, HAND AND PUBLICATION ON THE WEB
SUBJECT: LEGAL NOTICE
I act on my own behalf and address the following legal notice to you:
1. That you are continuously carrying out a malicious campaign of propaganda against me with mala fide intent claiming falsely and without cause that I incited three people i.e. Mr. Ali Azmat, ,Mr. Shemrez Nauman and Mr. Raza Ahmad (Rumi) to indulge in inappropriate and forcible sexual activity i.e. rape or collective zina-bil-jabr with one Nabiha Meher Shaikh. This terrible travesty of the truth has been perpetuated by your good selves through Twitter- a microblogging site-, via mass emails and orally. Evidence is attached herewith as Annex-A to this legal notice. The allegation is – needless to say - untrue and false and what is more that you are well aware that the allegation is entirely untrue.
2. That as a respectable citizen of society, a published author, a lawyer and a consultant, my reputation has been irreparably harmed by your actions and hence this legal notice has been addressed to you.
3. That through this legal notice, under the Defamation Ordinance, 2002, I call upon you within fourteen (14) days from the date of this legal notice to:
a. cease and desist from any and all such claims immediately whether electronically or orally;
b. delete all tweets to this end on the aforesaid microblogging website;
c. publish a retraction and an apology of equal prominence through the aforesaid microblogging site and in writing to me both via email and courier;
d. pay a sum of Rs. 500,000, each, to me as compensation for the mental anguish and loss of reputation (a detailed breakdown of this compensation shall be provided for as and when requested); and
e. inform me why you should not be proceeded against in an appropriate court of law of competent jurisdiction.
Please be advised that all these actions are sine qua non to each other for a settlement outside the court and to be deemed the irreducible minimum to this end.
4. That the failure to do the aforesaid will leave me no option but to proceed with appropriate legal action under the Defamation Ordinance as well as to move the court for any and all remedies, criminal and civil, available to me.
5. That I reserve the right to make Mr. Ali Azmat, Mr. Shemrez Nauman and Mr. Raza Ahmad (Rumi) as parties to any legal proceedings as they are also adversely affected by your propaganda. Any settlement with me as a consequence of this legal notice shall be without prejudice to their rights which have also been infringed upon by your unfortunate and callous actions.
6. That a copy of this legal notice is retained by me in my office for the purposes of further legal action.
Yours sincerely,
Yasser Latif Hamdani
(Advocate High Court)
ANNEX-A
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
To:
1. Nabiha Meher Shaikh, ADDRESS DELETED
2. Ahmad Yusuf, ADDRESS DELETED
3. Urooj Zia, ADDRESS DELETED
BY COURIER, EMAIL, HAND AND PUBLICATION ON THE WEB
SUBJECT: LEGAL NOTICE
I act on my own behalf and address the following legal notice to you:
1. That you are continuously carrying out a malicious campaign of propaganda against me with mala fide intent claiming falsely and without cause that I incited three people i.e. Mr. Ali Azmat, ,Mr. Shemrez Nauman and Mr. Raza Ahmad (Rumi) to indulge in inappropriate and forcible sexual activity i.e. rape or collective zina-bil-jabr with one Nabiha Meher Shaikh. This terrible travesty of the truth has been perpetuated by your good selves through Twitter- a microblogging site-, via mass emails and orally. Evidence is attached herewith as Annex-A to this legal notice. The allegation is – needless to say - untrue and false and what is more that you are well aware that the allegation is entirely untrue.
2. That as a respectable citizen of society, a published author, a lawyer and a consultant, my reputation has been irreparably harmed by your actions and hence this legal notice has been addressed to you.
3. That through this legal notice, under the Defamation Ordinance, 2002, I call upon you within fourteen (14) days from the date of this legal notice to:
a. cease and desist from any and all such claims immediately whether electronically or orally;
b. delete all tweets to this end on the aforesaid microblogging website;
c. publish a retraction and an apology of equal prominence through the aforesaid microblogging site and in writing to me both via email and courier;
d. pay a sum of Rs. 500,000, each, to me as compensation for the mental anguish and loss of reputation (a detailed breakdown of this compensation shall be provided for as and when requested); and
e. inform me why you should not be proceeded against in an appropriate court of law of competent jurisdiction.
Please be advised that all these actions are sine qua non to each other for a settlement outside the court and to be deemed the irreducible minimum to this end.
4. That the failure to do the aforesaid will leave me no option but to proceed with appropriate legal action under the Defamation Ordinance as well as to move the court for any and all remedies, criminal and civil, available to me.
5. That I reserve the right to make Mr. Ali Azmat, Mr. Shemrez Nauman and Mr. Raza Ahmad (Rumi) as parties to any legal proceedings as they are also adversely affected by your propaganda. Any settlement with me as a consequence of this legal notice shall be without prejudice to their rights which have also been infringed upon by your unfortunate and callous actions.
6. That a copy of this legal notice is retained by me in my office for the purposes of further legal action.
Yours sincerely,
Yasser Latif Hamdani
(Advocate High Court)
ANNEX-A
@theRealYLH I'd like to hear that from @Razarumi. Your "critique" is just pathetic, typical rapist mentality of Pakistani men.
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8:40 AM - 13 Jul 12 via web · Details
@Alija_MN They actually did, when I was a kid. And traumatised me. Didn't realise rape and childhood sexual abuse were things to laugh abt.
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@alex_gilchrist "Attention" while tagging people who've categorically issued rape threats to the same person earlier is a rape threat.
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Lesson from the past two days: @razarumi, the new head of@jinnahinstitute, can't be arsed to condemn rape threats issued by his own cheyla YLH.
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MT @ASYusuf 25-tweet rebuttal of why rape threats are justified, threat to sue, no apologies: a day in the life of a Pakistani Jinnah lover.
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@ZEEMANA No, the rape threat was made publicly by YLH, I have proof. What else do people need? Bakvaas kartey haiN subb. @BinaShah
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@omar_quraishi I cracked a rib a few months ago. What does that have to do with someone publicly threatening to gang-rape me?@binashah
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@FahadSiraj Supporting someone who has belligerently been issuingrape threats and other vileness rather publicly is harsher.
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@sherakhan46 <---- Has been RT links all morning, but hasn't found the time to condemn rape threat despite evidence. Chhaa gaey leftists.
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@sherakhan46 Still don't hear a condemnation, comrade. Or arerape threats less important than maintaining personal contacts?
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So a woman takes a man on face-to-face for misogyny. He runs to twitter and issues a rape threat. Saaley bloody cowards.#GrowAVagina
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Seconding what @ASYusuf said. Let's have two-two hands tomorrow. No one should get away with issuing rape threats. Period.
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Really awesome: when women, instead of confronting men for rapethreats, try and shut others up for confronting said men. Idiots.
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Imran Khan fan, rape apologist. RT @ohzytweets: @UroojZia Not that I am defending this guy BUT I believe he meant give her some attention.
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What makes it okay for a supposed ‘liberal Jinnah buff’ to publicly issue rape threats to a woman and why are all the men silent?
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Via @uroojzia @nabihameher Applicable to rape apologists in our great nation. http://twitpic.com/a6nmp2
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Very true RT @UroojZia [ via @nabihameher ] This is for all closet rapists, rape apologists... http://twitpic.com/a6nmp2
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[ via @nabihameher ] This is for all closet rapists, rape apologists, Pakistani Muslims: http://twitpic.com/a6nmp2
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