Pakistan’s Inside Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday warned Imran Khan that he could be arrested if the previous prime minister fails to cooperate with the investigation into the leaking of nationwide secrets and techniques in what has broadly come to be often called the ‘cipher case’.
Sanaullah’s warning got here a day after a detailed aide of Khan accused his ex-boss of utilizing a diplomatic cable from Pakistan’s mission within the US to construct an anti-establishment narrative.
“The FIA has summoned the PTI chairman within the cipher investigation. If he doesn’t cooperate throughout the inquiry stage, he might face doable arrest. Following the investigation, the FIA will make suggestions primarily based on proof relating to those that are complicit and towards whom legal circumstances ought to be filed,” Sanaullah tweeted.
Sanaullah within the press convention lent credence to the confessional assertion by Khan’s ex-principal secretary Azam Khan accusing the 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician of utilizing a cipher from Pakistan’s mission within the US to achieve political mileage and construct an anti-establishment narrative on the again of the confidential doc and assailed the previous prime minister.
The FIA in a discover to Khan requested the PTI chief to seem earlier than the bureau right here on July 25 in reference to the cipher probe, Daybreak Information reported.
In a shocking flip of occasions, Azam Khan, who had been lacking since final month, has returned house after a letter attributed to him in relation to his assertion towards Khan emerged on social media. Nevertheless, his lawyer Qasim Wadud advised Daybreak Information that his consumer was not in a situation to touch upon the assertion being attributed to him.
Azam Khan went lacking on June 15 and a case relating to his kidnapping was registered by the Islamabad police. A petition looking for the restoration of Azam Khan can also be pending earlier than the Islamabad Excessive Court docket.
Talking to the media throughout a court docket look on Wednesday, the cricketer-turned-politician stated: “Azam Khan is an trustworthy man; till I hear [this] from him myself, I can’t consider it.”
The assertion attributed to Azam Khan claimed that the PTI chief was allegedly euphoric after seeing the cipher and determined to make use of it to construct an anti-establishment narrative on the again of a “blunder” dedicated by the US.
“The cipher copy was retained by Imran Khan and the following day (March 10) when he requested for it, Imran Khan replied that he has misplaced it,” the confession assertion stated, including that the PTI chief didn’t return the unique cipher regardless of repeated requests.
The inside minister had on Wednesday termed the narrative behind the cipher “fabricated'” and claimed that Khan dedicated against the law and ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was an abettor.
The inside minister defined that for the reason that cipher was a confidential doc, its disclosure was illegal and against the law. “This case is just like the proceedings initiated towards former US President Donald Trump for mishandling labeled paperwork,” he added.
Requested whether or not this case would even be referred to a “particular court docket” as others being carried out beneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act, he replied within the affirmative.
