Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Ishaq Dar has won a defamation case filed against a private TV channel with a court in the United Kingdom over false allegations of “money-laundering, criminal activities, opening fake accounts and running away in Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s plane.”
The channel from its UK station had aired these allegations leveled by former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Minister Farrukh Habib when Ishaq Dar was about to return to Pakistan to take over the Finance Ministry in September 2022.
In a settlement reached with Ishaq Dar after he initiated defamation proceedings under UK laws, the channel (92 News) issued an apology to Ishaq Dar on its UK channel categorically stating that the allegations of criminal activities made on the channel by PTI leader Farrukh Habib were “completely false, baseless and untrue.”
The channel apologised to Ishaq Dar stating that it “deeply” regretted airing false allegations by Farrukh Habib, saying “Mr Ishaq Dar is a man of great credibility and honesty who has never been involved in corruption and has always worked diligently for the betterment of Pakistan.”
