Islamabad High Court Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb said on the arguments of the prosecutor on the plea filed once morest the conviction of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder chairman Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case that the leaked audios on the Internet are correct. I don’t believe it, Chief Justice Aamir Farooq remarked that today there is technology that can make your voice and mine, the former Chief Justice’s audio was leaked which later turned out to be false.
Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Hasan Aurangzeb heard the appeals once morest the conviction of founder PTI and Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case.
Founder PTI lawyers Salman Safdar, Khalid Yusuf Chaudhary and others while FIA prosecutor Hamid Ali Shah appeared in the court.
FIA Special Prosecutor Hamid Ali Shah while giving arguments regarding electronic evidence said that leaked audios of 4 people including founder PTI are available on the internet.
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Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb asked who posted the leaked audio on the Internet? Do you believe everything you see on the internet? I don’t, the internet is a lie unless something is proven true.
The special prosecutor said that these audios were uploaded on September 28, 2022, from the verified account of a person named Azhar.
In the FIR, on 7 March 2022, the then Foreign Secretary received a diplomatic cipher from Washington, on 5 October 2022, a case was registered in the FIA’s counter-terrorism department once morest former Prime Minister Imran Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi. And Asad Umar and his aides were accused of endangering national security and seeking personal gain by distorting the information contained in the cipher.
The case said that former Prime Minister Imran Khan, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and their aides were involved in providing classified information to unauthorized persons.
Cipher was quoted as saying that ‘they held a secret meeting on March 28, 2022 at Bani Gala (Imran Khan’s residence) to hatch a conspiracy by misusing the details of the cipher to achieve their nefarious purpose’.
It was said in the case that ‘accused Imran Khan with wrong intention instructed his then Principal Secretary Muhammad Azam Khan to prepare minutes in this secret meeting by changing the text of the cipher for his personal interest at the cost of national security. ‘.
The FIR alleged that the copy of the cipher sent to the Prime Minister’s Office was deliberately kept by then Prime Minister Imran Khan with ulterior motives and never returned to the Ministry of External Affairs.
It was further informed that ‘the said cipher (classified secret document) is still illegally in the possession of Imran Khan, the entire cipher security system of the state and the Pakistani missions abroad due to the unauthorized acquisition and misuse of the cipher telegram by the nominated person. ‘s encrypted messaging mechanism has been compromised’.
The FIR stated that the actions of the accused directly or indirectly benefited external powers and caused damage to the state of Pakistan.
The case registered in the FIA further stated that ‘the competent authority has approved the registration of the case, hence the FIA Anti-Terrorism Wing at the Islamabad Police Station under Sections 5 and 9 of the Official Secrets Act of the Pakistan Penal Code. A case under Section 34 has been filed once morest former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for misuse of official secret information and illegal acquisition of Cipher Telegram (official secret document) under malicious intent and Azam Khan as Principal Secretary, The role of former federal minister Asad Umar and other involved assistants will be determined during the investigation.
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2024-05-11 02:50:37