Shoaib seeks damages

Published June 19, 2004

LAHORE, June 18: Paceman Shoaib Akhtar has filed two cases in a civil court on Friday claiming Rs100 million in each as compensation for damaging his reputation and giving mental torture.

The cases have been filed against two citizens Syed Muzammal Hussain Shah and Syed Najamul Abbas Shah before the civil judge Furrukh Husain.

Shoaib went to the court after being cleared from the cases filed by two citizen against him. They had filed cases against Shoaib for giving a statement to a foreign journalist that had he born in Australia his future would have been better.

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