Except you have been dwelling under a rock, chances are that you must have read the story of Shaista Wahidi, a TV host of a forenoon display on Geo TV, marrying Mir Shakeel-ur-Rehman, the reviewer in head of Jang Group of bulletins and Group head person of Geo TV mesh.
This rumor was carried by diverse Pakistani blogs, source of which is still unknown, and then article went viral on communal media, granted the flavour it had got in it.
According to Pakium.com Mir Shakeel Ur Rehman, furthermore renowned as MSR, finally decided to answer by giving a strong response in form of a lawful notice that his lawful consultant has assisted to 30+ blogs that had carried the news. Notice furthermore demands Rs. 1 Billion (from each blogger) as compensation for the loss of MSR’s status.
Ahmed and Qazi, a regulation firm based out of Karachi, confirmed ProPakistani that legal observe was served by them on behalf of Mir Shakeel Ur Rehman to over two dozen websites.
A copy of the legal notice is displayed below:
As Google Suggests, reports of Shaista Wahidi marrying Mir Shakeel Ur Rehman are still available online, hinting that bloggers either don’t know the stature of legal notice or they aren’t much concerned over the issue. At the same time we have also seen apologies by select bloggers on the instance.
Ahmed & Qazi said that they are yet to decide about filing the lawsuit against those bloggers who haven’t apologized by removing the story from their websites.
Bloggers must learn the lesson from this episode and they should never copy/paste stories from other websites without verifying facts.
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