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ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has termed his PMO’s audio leak as a ‘major security breach’, saying the leaked conversation between him and Azam Khan was a telephonic discussion from a secure line in PM House.
“What would happen if conversations from Prime Minister House are leaked to Pakistan’s enemies?” The former Premier asked during an interview on a private TV channel.
“It seems the secure connection of the Prime Minister House is recorded, which was later hacked and made public,” he said.
The audio leak is a major national security breach, he stressed, adding, “I don’t know exactly who is behind the issue, but I know that it is a very big security breach.”
Regarding the dialogues in the recording that was leaked, Khan claimed that he had covered every topic in the cypher. “At that time, there was an OIC summit in Pakistan, therefore I wanted to keep the subject quiet.”
After being given to the National Security Committee, which authorized sending a demarche over the incident, the contents of the cypher were made public, he claimed.
Before sending a demarche, the country involved was not named, but afterward everyone was aware of it, according to Khan.
Speaking about the theft of the cypher, Khan claimed that a copy of it was delivered to the President, who then sent a copy to the country’s Supreme Court. In addition, he said, “a copy was delivered to the speaker of the National Assembly, who also offered opposition to see the contents of it.”
The leader of PTI said it was shameful for a country’s undersecretary to summon Pakistan’s envoy and instruct him to depose the current prime minister. I wish to commend Asad Majeed for using cypher to send a protest regarding the issue.
According to Khan, we did not intend to sour relations with the US; rather, we merely wished to convey that such behavior would not be accepted.
