Imran seeks JIT to determine which intel agency involved in PMO bugging

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Imran Khan has sought a joint investigation team (JIT) to determine which intelligence agency was behind the bugging of the Prime Minister House.

In a series of tweets, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that PTI will go to court against the audio leaks. He also said that the audio leaks were a serious breach of the national security of Pakistan.

Imran Khan has said that the secure telephone line at his residence was also bugged when he was the prime minister.

In his tweets, the PTI chairman has said that the audio leaks were a serious attack on the national security because these have raised questions about the entire security system of the Prime Minister Office (PMO) and Prime Minister House (PMH).

He further stated that as a PM, the safe line of his residence was also bugged, further adding that they were planning to approach the court for investigation upon these audios so that a JIT could find out which intelligence agency was responsible for bugging and who was releasing the audios, many of which were edited/doctored.

Former prime minister also stated that the research was very important because sensitive topics related to national security (discussions, etc.) had been illegally recorded and then hacked. He further stated at the end that as a result, information about Pakistan’s national security was exposed to the whole world.

The PTI chairman has made the comments after a series of audio leaks involving him discussing the ‘cypher’ and political developments prior to the no-confidence motion had gone viral in the past few weeks.

On the other hand, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has categorically denied the involvement of any agency in the security breach.

A committee headed by the interior minister has already been formed by the federal government for investigation over the security breach. The first meeting of the committee has also been conducted, that was attended by federal ministers, cabinet secretary and representatives of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

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