A Pakistani court has issued a notice to Prime Minister Imran Khan in a defamation case filed by PML-N chief Shahbaz Sharif seeking early hearing of his suit against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, pending for three years. In April 2017, Khan alleged that Shahbaz Sharif allegedly offered him USD 61 million through a "common friend" to withdraw the Panama Papers case in the Supreme Court against 70-year-old former Prime Minister and his elder brother Nawaz Sharif. On Friday, Lahore's Additional District and Sessions Court took up Shahbaz Sharif's application for early hearing on June 10.

Source: AFP