After sending a defamation notice to Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel for making “false” claims about his health, PTI Chairman Imran Khan has now also sent a similar notice to Dr Rizwan Taj — the doctor heading the Pims medical board that prepared and released the ex-premier’s medical report.

The notice stated that the information shared in the report, of Imran’s tests conducted after his arrest on May 9, was “false, untrue, baseless and defamatory in nature”.

It asked Dr Taj to pay Rs10bn for “deliberate and malicious representations through the preparation of a fabricated and false medical report of the client”.

The notice, dated May 30, also called on the doctor to make a public apology to Imran, both on national and international media, on “account of the reputational damage caused” by the report.

It warned that failure to do the above within 14 days will result in legal proceedings being initiated against the doctor, possibly including proceedings under the Defamation Ordinance 2002, criminal proceedings and filing of a complaint against him before the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and other relevant forums.