{"id":11000,"date":"2022-09-28T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:43:27","slug":"lets-play-with-it-imran-allegedly-tells-azam-about-us-cypher-in-leaked-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lets-play-with-it-imran-allegedly-tells-azam-about-us-cypher-in-leaked-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let&#8217;s play with it&#8217;: Imran allegedly tells Azam about US cypher in leaked audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Let&#8217;s play with it&#8217;: Imran allegedly tells Azam about US cypher in leaked audio. As the audios of high-profile personalities continue to get leaked, a sound bite of former prime minister<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\"> Imran Khan<\/a> allegedly telling his then-principal secretary Azam Khan to &#8220;play&#8221; with the US cypher has come to the fore.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio allegedly featuring Khan, a man can be heard talking about the cypher which Khan \u2014 time and again \u2014 has claimed mentions the &#8220;threat&#8221; to remove his government.<\/p>\n<p>Khan allegedly told Azam in the audio \u2014 the date of which cannot be ascertained at the moment \u2014 that &#8220;let&#8217;s just play&#8221; with the cypher and not mention America&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ib-to-investigate-pm-house-for-spying-devices-after-controversial-audio-leaks.html\">IB to investigate PM House for spying devices after controversial audio leaks<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In response, Azam tells Khan a scheme of how to use the cypher to forward PTI&#8217;s political agenda \u2014 and in that, he also suggests using Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood so the matter can be highlighted at a &#8220;bureaucratic level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In July, senior journalist Ansar Abbasi had warned that the audio would come forward and the PTI, in response to the blog, said that it would &#8220;not sit quietly&#8221; if such a thing happens.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after audio leaks of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, federal ministers, and PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz surfaced last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PTI calls for releasing cypher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry responded to the development, saying that &#8220;the new leaks only confirm the attempt to hide the US cable from the [then] prime minister [Imran Khan]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ur\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0646\u0626 \u0644\u06cc\u06a9\u0633 \u0633\u06d2 \u0635\u0631\u0641 \u06cc\u06c1 \u06a9\u0646\u0641\u0631\u0645 \u06c1\u0648\u062a\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2 \u06a9\u06c1 \u0627\u0645\u0631\u06cc\u06a9\u06cc \u0645\u0631\u0627\u0633\u0644\u06c1 \u0648\u0632\u06cc\u0631 \u0627\u0639\u0638\u0645 \u0633\u06d2 \u0686\u06be\u067e\u0627\u0646\u06d2 \u06a9\u06cc \u06a9\u0648\u0634\u0634 \u06a9\u06cc \u06af\u0626<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fawadchaudhry\/status\/1575030010934874112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>PTI leader Hammad Azhar said when Imran Khan was the prime minister, his government was removed following the &#8220;exact same script as was given in the cypher&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let that sink in,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Imran Khan \u2018made up\u2019 the conspiracy of regime change by the US, he was the prime minister of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pakistan<\/a>. Let that sink in. Let it sink in to what lengths our PM went to hold on to power: political instability, breakdown in US ties, none of it mattered. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/smFeJnN0Fb\">pic.twitter.com\/smFeJnN0Fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mehreen Zahra-Malik (@mehreenzahra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehreenzahra\/status\/1575031817010544640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the cypher should be released now and the people of Pakistan should decide whether it was a conspiracy or even more than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Let&#8217;s play with it&#8217;: Imran allegedly tells Azam about US cypher in leaked audio. As the audios of high-profile personalities continue to get leaked, a sound bite of former prime minister Imran Khan allegedly telling his then-principal secretary Azam Khan to &#8220;play&#8221; with the US cypher has come to the fore. In the audio allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[3961,1164,5600,6970,103,205,253,194],"class_list":["post-11000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-ansar-abbasi","tag-azam-khan","tag-pmln-government","tag-us-cypher","tag-imran-khan","tag-maryam-nawaz","tag-pmln","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}