{"id":162350,"date":"2020-12-16T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=162350"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T12:14:59","slug":"fia-declares-meesha-shafi-guilty-of-running-smear-campaign-against-ali-zafar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/fia-declares-meesha-shafi-guilty-of-running-smear-campaign-against-ali-zafar\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA declares Meesha Shafi guilty of running &#8216;smear campaign&#8217; against Ali Zafar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, December 16 (online): Pakistani singer Meesha Shafi was found guilty by the Federal Investigation Agency of running a smear campaign against Ali Zafar on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAn interim challan was submitted by FIA\u2019s cybercrime Lahore wing, before the court overlooking the FIR registered on Zafar\u2019s complaint after Shafi accused him of sexual harassment in April 2018.<br \/>\nAccording to FIA, Shafi could not present witnesses before the court that would back her allegations against Zafar, thereby making her statement against him \u2018defamatory\u2019 and \u2018false.\u2019<br \/>\nBack in November 2018, Zafar had filed a complaint with FIA\u2019s cybercrime wing, claiming he was receiving threats from multiple social media accounts.<br \/>\nAs per Zafar, several fake accounts were created as part of a smear campaign against him. He also alleged that the profiles were linked to Shafi.<br \/>\nShafi and her team of lawyers had presented themselves before the FIA in December 2019 but could not present witnesses to back their claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, December 16 (online): Pakistani singer Meesha Shafi was found guilty by the Federal Investigation Agency of running a smear campaign against Ali Zafar on Tuesday. 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