Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday said that the government will conduct a forensic audit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s leaked audios. Sanaullah – during a press conference in Islamabad – said that if Khan’s audio is real, then he should be exposed before the nation. “Khan has created a narrative of an American conspiracy to mislead the nation and divide it,” he added. Criticising the PTI chief, the interior minister said that Khan has caused “irreparable damage to Pakistan and destroyed the country’s economy and political culture.” “I will show students Imran Khan’s awful face,” said Sanaullah with reference to a university lecture that Khan delivered. Sanaullah said that persons involved in ‘audio leaks’ allegedly from PM House will be dealt strictly as no one would be allowed to violate the constitution of the country. While condemning the harassment incident with Information minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, he said that it is an embarrassing matter and overseas nationals who were involved in the harassment would face legal actions. PML-N will lodge a case against the nationals responsible for the harassment incident, he said, adding, the responsible nationals will face exemplary punishment.
Sanaullah alleged said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was bent upon dividing the nation as part of his ‘anti-state agenda’, which would be nipped in the bud. He said a power hungry Imran Khan was creating anarchy and chaos in the country and the audio leak had fully exposed him before the nation. His so-called foreign conspiracy narrative of his removal from the prime minister office had been done and dusted as Imran Khan could be heard in the audio clip asking Azam Khan (his principal secretary) to use the ‘cypher’ for political motives, the minister added. The audio clip, which also played during the press conference, showed how the PTI chief misled the people at the cost of national interests, Rana Sanaullah remarked.
The minister said Imran Khan misguided students in his address at the Government College University, Lahore that his government was ousted through a foreign conspiracy, but his leaked audio revealed the real story. He was voted out from the Prime Minister House through a constitutional way.
Imran Khan, being ‘power hungry’, was cheating the people as evident from his another speech, in which he tried to incite the masses for marching on Islamabad, he alleged.
The minister said the country’s economy and political culture was destroyed during the Imran Khan led government, while Pakistan was also isolated at international level. Even his allies left him for the politics of indecency pursued by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief and his poor performance on economic front.
He said ironically, Imran Khan spoke of the foreign conspiracy when his allies parted their ways with him. “If had some moral courage then he should approach the Supreme Court for an inquiry into his own audio leak like that of his persistent demand for probe into the so-called foreign conspiracy.
The government would ensure forensic audit of the audio while the media and civil society organizations should also check its veracity, he added. The national interests were at stake due to the person, who was working on a ‘hidden agenda’ or ‘agenda of his masters’, the minister alleged.
Responding to queries of the journalists, Rana Sanaullah said no one would be allowed to have political point scoring, and those involved in harming the national interests would be exposed. The ‘mastermind of conspiracy drama’ was Imran Khan and “we will have to get rid of such anti-state elements”, he added.
