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False claim that Pakistani singer was sentenced to three years in jail for defamation circulates online

Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter claim that Pakistani singer Meesha Shafi was sentenced to three years in jail for falsely accusing fellow singer Ali Zafar of sexual harassment. The claim is false; a court is yet to pass judgment in an ongoing defamation lawsuit Zafar filed against Shafi after she accused him of sexual harassment; Shafi and her legal team refuted the claim, calling it “false information” and “fake news”. The claim has been shared more than 500 times since it was published on Facebook here March 15, 2021. The post’s lengthy caption reads in part: “On levelling false sexual harassment allegations on the Pakistan s Pop Star Ali Zafar, his colleague Singer Meesha Shafi sentenced to three years imprisonment in a Defamation case filed by Ali Zafar three years back.”

False claim circulates online that Meesha Shafi was sentenced to three years in jail for defamation

False claim circulates online that Meesha Shafi was sentenced to three years in jail for defamation   Published On 17 March,2021 09:27 pm False claim circulates online that Meesha Shafi was sentenced to three years in jail for defamation (AFP) - Multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter claim that Pakistani singer Meesha Shafi was sentenced to three years in jail for falsely accusing fellow singer Ali Zafar of sexual harassment. The claim is false; a court is yet to pass judgment in an ongoing defamation lawsuit Zafar filed against Shafi after she accused him of sexual harassment; Shafi and her legal team refuted the claim, calling it “false information” and “fake news”.

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Fake News Alert: Meesha Shafi Wasn t Convicted in Ali Zafar Case

The Teefa in Trouble actor had filed a defamation lawsuit against the singer after her sexual harassment lawsuit against Ali Zafar became the most high profile #MeToo case in Pakistan. ALSO READ However, no Pakistani court has issued such a verdict or ruling. As Meesha Shafi’s lawyer clarified, the defamation case in question is still undergoing trial in the court. He added that none of those accused by Ali Zafar has been convicted. He explained; “It is being incorrectly reported that ‘a Pakistani court has awarded three years imprisonment to my client Meesha Shafi for causing irreparable damage to Ali Zafar’s career thanks to the false allegations. ”

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He clarified that the trial court had not sentenced Shafi to three years in jail. Let there be no confusion that no such verdict has been passed by any court in Pakistan, he said in his statement. It is ridiculous how the news media have jumped to spreading the fake news, misleading their viewers and readers by relying on an imagined reaction from my client to the imagined court verdict, he added. Shafi in 2018 accused fellow singer Ali Zafar of harassment in a Twitter post an allegation he has vehemently denied. Both of them have filed cases against each other in different courts with Zafar instituting a defamation suit against Shafi for accusing him of sexual harassment.

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