PTI renews its plea for an investigation as a new audio clip emerges.
Inquiry into allegedly leaked audio connected to a high-ranking judge is also demanded by Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has reiterated its demand for a probe into suspected audio leaks that allegedly contain private conversations of the nation’s top politicians, officials, and judges.
After yet another audio clip purportedly featuring members of the nation’s top judge surfaced on Sunday, PTI senior leader Fawad Chaudhry expressed disappointment that the Supreme Court had not taken up the party’s petition, which was submitted in October of last year and asked for the creation of an inquiry commission to look into the audio leaks.
Fawad stated that the PTI continuously asked the Supreme Court to take notice of the earlier purported audio leaks from the Prime Minister House and Office.
Who will be safe if this tendency continues, especially if the country’s prime minister’s office is so unsafe that every meeting there is bugged? He added while raising concerns about the intelligence community’s involvement in the leaks.
He questioned, “In which civilized nation is this the function of agencies?
An audio tape from earlier today that apparently included the mother-in-law of a senior Supreme Court judge and the wife of a PTI attorney and in which both were purportedly heard discussing the recent political turmoil and a high-profile case being considered by the top court went viral on social media.
In reference to the allegedly leaked conversation, Fawad claimed that despite several months having passed, the Supreme Court had not scheduled a hearing on their appeal over audio leaks.
After judges, legislators, and bureaucrats, he claimed that housewives were now also affected by “this third-class thinking and no one can do anything” about it.
Illegal phone tapping is punishable by up to three years in prison under the fair trial statute, he noted.
Rana Sanaullah, the interior minister, has also called for the judges identified in the recent audio clip to resign and has sought a forensic examination of the audio footage.
Sanaullah urged Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial to take suo motu notice and order forensic analysis of the audio recording to confirm the audio recording’s authenticity and veracity while speaking at a press conference in Faisalabad earlier today.
