Politics

Mehwish Hayat stands up for herself against defamatory content

She claimed in her appeal that when the livestream aired, a number of social media users on Twitter and Instagram began superimposing images of Hayat and other performers whose initials Raja had uttered. She claimed that Raja used Hayat’s initials M and H to spell out his name in the video and that “some social media users initiated a social media campaign on such a video aired by Mr. Raja with a purpose to disparage state institutions and to harm the reputation of the petitioner.”