Pakistan, April 9 -- After approximately eight years of trial proceedings in one of the most high-profile celebrity cases in recent times that divided public opinion, the learned trial court, in a detailed 156-page judgment, held that the allegations of sexual harassment levelled by Meesha Shafi against Ali Zafar were not just unproven but false and defamatory and awarded general damages worth 5,000,000 to Ali Zafar for harm to reputation, dignity and mental suffering. While there are often concerns as to how harassment allegations can be proven in the absence of direct evidence, the detailed judgment appears to explain the evidence presented by Zafar and his legal team and the reasoning behind the court's decision.

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