Chairman of PTI and former Prime Minister Imran Khan says about the disappearance of the diplomatic cipher. He says that I had a copy of it and it disappeared, I don’t know where it went.
Talking about the leak audios regarding the cipher in ARY News’ program ‘Sawaal Yeh Hai‘. Imran Khan says that ‘I don’t know who is behind it and what is it, but I know this much. This is a huge security breach’.
He says that ‘Think that the talk of the Prime Minister’s safe line has come to the public’.
Regarding the leak audio of the conversation with former Principal Secretary Azam Khan. Imran Khan says, “I think it’s a telephone conversation, I don’t think it’s in the room.”
He says further that ‘I didn’t hear the second audio, so I can’t talk about it. If there are 4 people it must have happen in the room’.
Imran Khan says that ‘If Prime Minister’s calls are leak on the telephone line like Shahbaz Sharif. Then think about our national security. Our opponents are not well-wishers, those who are enemy countries will now reach there too’.
Imran Khan says that ‘if the Prime Minister is talking to the Principal Secretary or anyone. There may be some other matter, there may be a big classified matter’. “I think someone records the secured line and it get hacked”.
He also says, ‘We do not tell about it, when we receive the letter on March 28. The name of the country was not mention. When place in the National Security Committee. It was decided that America should be condemned that you are going into our internal affairs. Then we make it public.
He says that ‘if you look at the minutes of our last cabinet meeting. You will know that we have declassify it’.
Imran Khan is ask where the copy of the cipher is. He reply, “If it is declassify, what to do with a raid. I have one, it disappear, I don’t know. But one is with president of Pakistan as head of the services chief. One is send to the chief justice of Pakistan”.
Talking about the copy of the cipher. He says, “We send one from the Foreign Office to the Speaker of the National Assembly. And presented it to the entire opposition whether it was a cipher or not. Because they were denying it and it is a cipher. Also send to the Chief Justice”.
He says that ‘the cipher is available, we do not make it public because it contains a secret code. But as soon as it is made public, the code of the Foreign Office becomes public. So we do not make it public’.
When ask about the language and play that appear in the audio. The former prime minister says, When you are talking to someone on the telephone, there is a term. How do we use it because we use it.
It should note that on September 30, it is reveal in the Federal Cabinet meeting that the copy of the diplomatic cipher based on the allegations made by former Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding the American threat is missing from the Prime Minister’s House.
In the announcement issue after the meeting of the federal cabinet, it is state that the cabinet is briefed on the issue of diplomatic cipher. Where it is reveals that the copy of the relevant diplomatic cipher is missing from the records of the Prime Minister House.
It states in the statement that “this cipher send to the former prime minister is register in the record of receipt in the Prime Minister’s House. But its copy is not present in the record.
According to the law, this copy is the property of the Prime Minister’s House.
According to the statement, the meeting declares that the theft of diplomatic cipher records is a serious matter. A special committee of the cabinet is form to determine legal action against all the involved roles, former prime minister, former principal secretary, former senior ministers.
The cabinet committee will include representatives of the coalition parties in the government. As well as the ministers of foreign affairs, home affairs and law.
When Imran ask about the arrest warrant, he says, “There are 24 FIRs against me. It is expected for me because they all have such politics. I am ready for it. My team already convey me that at any time they can arrest me. He says that they are running away from the election and want to hold this election only if I am disqualified.
When asked about the news of a meeting with an influential person belonging to the establishment in the presence of the President in the President’s House. He says that ‘I do not tell a lie and I cannot reveal the truth’.
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