Web Desk — There is another purported audio clip of Imran Khan and his team, just days after a sound bite of the former prime minister telling his then-principal secretary Azam Khan to “play” with the US cipher surfaced.
Here is the latest audio purportedly featuring Imran Khan, Asad Umar, Azam Khan, and Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
In it, Khan can allegedly be heard discussing the cipher with party leaders.
Rough transcription of the audio
Imran Khan: Shah jee [Shah Mahmood Qureshi], we three [Imran Khan, Azam Khan, and you] have to hold a meeting tomorrow, along with the foreign secretary [Sohail Mahmood]. [In the meeting], we will ask him to just sit quietly and write the minutes of the meeting as is. Azam [Khan] is saying to write the minutes […] and we will keep the photostat.
Azam Khan: This cipher came on the 7th, 8th, or 9th [March]?
Another person [present in the meeting]: It came on the 8th.
Imran Khan: But the meeting took place on the 7th. We do not have to name Americans under any circumstances. So on this issue, please, nobody should name the country. This is very important for all of you. From which country did the letter come? I don’t want to hear it from anyone.
Asad Umar: Are you intentionally calling it a letter? Because this isn’t a letter, it is a transcript of the meeting.
Imran Khan: It is the same thing, whether it’s the meeting transcript or a letter. People won’t understand what a transcript is. You have to say this in your rallies.
What was the first audio leak?
Former prime minister Imran Khan allegedly told his then-principal secretary Azam Khan to “play” with the US cipher, according to a sound bite released on Wednesday.
In the audio allegedly featuring Khan, a man mentions a cipher that Khan – time and again – has claimed mentions the “threat” to remove his government.
According to the audio – whose date could not be determined – Khan told Azam to “just play” with the cipher and not mention America.
In response, Azam tells Khan how to use the cipher to advance PTI’s political agenda – and in that, he also suggests using Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood to make a point at a “bureaucratic level”.