King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
QB-2022-002648 - [2025] EWHC 2565 (KB)
Fecha: 09-Oct-2025
THE WORDS COMPLAINED OF AND THEIR NATURAL AND ORDINARY MEANING
THE WORDS COMPLAINED OF AND THEIR NATURAL AND ORDINARY MEANING
First publication – 14 June 2022 on Twitter
The agreed English translation of this publication is as follows:
“I have been told that Imran Khan is being made a fool in the name of elections, although there is no plan to hold elections till 2023 and Hamza’s government will continue in Punjab. It’s because Brigadier Rashid (ISI’s Sector Commander Punjab) has taken complete occupation of the Lahore High Court.”
The publication bears the following meaning:
“The reasons why the elections were not proceeding as they should was because the Claimant had taken complete control of the Lahore High Court.”
- Heading
- Introduction
- THE PARTIES
- BACKGROUND TO THE PUBLICATIONS COMPLAINED OF
- THE WORDS COMPLAINED OF AND THEIR NATURAL AND ORDINARY MEANING
- Second publication – 19 June 2022 on Twitter
- Third publication – 19 June 2022 on Twitter
- Fourth publication – 19 June 2022 on YouTube and Twitter and 22 June 2022 on Facebook
- Sixth publication – 29 June 2022 on Twitter
- Seventh publication – 29 June 2022 on Twitter
- Eighth publication – 29 June 2022 on Twitter
- Ninth publication – 29 June 2022 on Twitter
- Tenth publication – 29 June 2022 on Twitter
- ISSUE 1 - SERIOUS HARM
- Publication on matter of public interest
- Immediate points
- The Arshad Sharif Report
- General Durrani
- The Amnesty International Tweet
- The first publication
- The second publication
- The third publication
- The fourth publication
- The sixth publication
- The seventh publication
- The eighth publication
- The ninth publication
- The tenth publication
- The Defendant’s witnesses
- The Claimant’s evidence
- ISSUE 3 – THE MEASURE OF DAMAGES
- ISSUE 4 – OTHER REMEDIES
- Conclusions