August 2, 2026
A district and sessions court has ordered PTI leader Murad Saeed to pay Rs2.5 million in damages to Ahsan Iqbal, finding that allegations Saeed made in 2019 about commissions on the Multan-Sukkur Motorway were defamatory and unproven by the evidence.
June 28, 2026
A majority Supreme Court bench has set aside its own 2022 verdict and restored jailed PTI founder Imran Khan's right to contest a Rs10 billion defamation suit filed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
LONDON: The BBC said on Tuesday it will fight a $10 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster over a documentary it edited of his 2021 speech in the run-up to the US Capitol uprising. “As we have previously made clear, we will defend this case,” a BBC spokesman said in a statement sent to AFP, adding that the company would not make “further comment on ongoing legal proceedings”. The lawsuit, filed in Miami federal court, seeks “damages of not less than $5,000,000,000” on each of two counts against the British broadcaster, alleging defamation and
December 16, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he attends a roundtable discussion on the day he announced an aid package for farmers, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., December 8, 2025.— Reuters Trump is seeking $5 billion on each of the two counts. BBC faces crisis, resignations over documentary editing. Admits error of judgment but denies legal basis for action. President Donald Trump sued the BBC on Monday for defamation over edited excerpts of a speech that appeared to lead his supporters to storm the US Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems
November 14, 2025
The BBC says the president has sent a personal apology to the White House, calling the editing of the documentary a mistake A man walks towards the entrance to the BBC building. PHOTO: AFP The British Broadcasting Corporation sent a personal apology to US President Donald Trump on Thursday, but said there was no legal basis to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary that its lawyers called libelous. The documentary, which aired on the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ news program just before the 2024 US presidential election, combined three parts of Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed
Blake Lively. Photo: Instagram/blakelively Actress and entrepreneur Blake Lively is seeking more than $161 million in damages, claiming she suffered severe financial and reputational losses due to an alleged retaliation and defamation campaign tied to the 2024 release of Justin Baldoni’s It Ends With Us. According to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Lively’s lawsuit names Baldoni, producer Jamey Heath, Wayfarer Studios executive Steve Sarowitz and their publicists as defendants in an ongoing sexual harassment and retaliation case. Lively’s legal team claims the campaign cost her $56.2 million in lost income from acting, producing and public appearances, including $18.3 million
July 19, 2025
Listen to the article US President Donald Trump has sued Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch for at least $ 10 billion on Friday, above the newspaper report that his name was in his 2003 birthday greeting for Jeffrey Epstein that included a sexually illustrative. They shared. The lawsuit filed with the Miami Federal Court calls Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp and its CEO Robert Thomson and two Wall Street Journal journalists as defendants, saying that they had difficulty Trump and provoked him to suffer “overwhelming” financial “financial”. Epstein, the frustrated financier and the sex perpetrator, died
Karachi: Aurat March issued a statement on the support of director Jamshed Mahmood, well known as Jami, following his conviction in accordance with Pakistan’s criminal defamation laws. In an Instagram position, Aurat March said: “Pakistan’s criminal defamation laws are a powerful tool for the silence of survivors of sexual violence and their allies.” The team added: “Jami’s conviction according to these unfair laws is a reminder that the legal system does not support survivors, it punishes them.” The current case began at the Lahooti Melo Festival in 2019, where Jami read a letter wrote a supposed victim of sexual harassment
Listen to the article A regional and sessions court in Islamabad on Monday interrupted proceedings in a defamation case tabled by designer Maria B against the comedian Shehzad Ghias Sheikh. The case was heard by additional Judge Sheikh Muhammad Sohail. Representing Maria B, Barrister Abdul Ahad Khokhar urged the court to limit Shehzad from detachment of further tweets and videos, arguing that the ongoing content is equivalent to harmful propaganda, while the case remains underwater. Reading: Maria B weighs in fashion trend Farshi Shalwar “It is necessary to limit him from social media comments until the issue is resolved,” Khokhar
Pakistani YouTuber, comedian and Podcaster Shehzad Ghias Shaikh, claimed to face arrest or detention next week in relation to a defamation case involving fashion designer Maria B, followed through the FIFA Federal Research Service (FIA). In a video posted on his YouTube channel, Ghias claimed he had received a court call for Monday, but that the official details of the case, including the charges, remained unclear. “I have no idea what I have called. He said that Maria B initially issued a political legal alert against him for defamation, but later there was a criminal defamation via the FIA, a
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