Would be insult to respond to Cynthia Ritchie's accusations: Rehman Malik's spokesperson
Last updated on: 06 June,2020 10:13 pm
Would be insult to respond to Cynthia Dawn Ritchie's accusations, says Rehman Malik's spokesperson.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Rehman Malik’s spokesperson has Saturday said that Malik considers it an insult to respond to US national Cynthia Dawn Ritchie’s accusations against him which are completely baseless and obscene.
The spokesperson said, “Rehman Malik has strongly rejected the allegations leveled against him by Cynthia Dawn Ritchie and his sons have already sought legal advice to file defamation case against her.
“The allegations are based on dishonesty to damage Rehman Malik’s repute. Cynthia Dawn Ritchie has given such statement over provocation by some individual or group.
“Rehman Malik has always raised voice over Indian atrocities against Muslims of occupied Kashmir and India. The allegations have been leveled when the PPP leader – as Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior – took notice of Cynthia Ritchie’s accusations against former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.”
It is pertinent here to mention that Cynthia Dawn Ritchie, who resides in Pakistan, accused Senator Rehman Malik of raping her as interior minister in 2011. She made the revelation against the law-maker in a Facebook video and later tweeted that she had been drugged before the incident took place.
In her video, Cynthia Ritchie also claimed that former health minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin and former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani physically manhandled her. She said that Yousaf Raza Gillani manhandled her while he was staying at the President House.
Responding to the allegations in an exclusive interview with Dunya News, Yousaf Raza Gillani said that it would be an insult to respond to the allegations of the woman and the accuser should be ashamed of making such a claim.
Yousaf Raza Gillani said that this woman has also made peculiar allegations against Benazir Bhutto, which no one can tolerate. He said that Ali Haider Gillani and Ali Qasim have gone to court on this issue.
He also questioned what the accuser was doing at the Presidency in the first place and asked who gave her the right to make accusations against politicians.