Islamabad: The FIA summoned Imran Khan on August 1 in a case related to the diplomatic cable saga. Which the former premier claimed contained details of a US threat against his government.
Imran waved a letter in a public gathering in Islamabad on March 27, 2022. He claimed that its evidence of a “international conspiracy” backed by the US to overthrow his government.
The ex-prime minister gave the FIA his statement a day earlier.
The investigating agency asked the former prime minister to come before its joint inquiry team at noon on Tuesday (August 1) in the new notice. The FIA ordered Imran to present papers to the JIT.
The letter states that the PTI head will questioned about his July 25 statement.
FIA questioned PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi for about two hours this week about the disputed US cypher.
Qureshi summoned by an eight-member team led by FIA Islamabad Zone Director Rana Abdul Jabbar because he was PTI’s foreign minister during the cypher affair.
The PTI vice chairman’s interrogation included FIA officers from several wings and one grade-19 officer from three intelligence agencies.
Last Monday, former principal secretary Azam Khan “recorded” a statement calling the US cypher a “conspiracy” utilised by the ex-PM to “manipulate for creating a narrative against establishment and opposition.”
Sources claimed Azam, who had been “missing” since last month, gave a magistrate his statement under CrPC 164.
Imran called Azam a “honest man” and said he would not believe the bureaucrat unless he heard him say it.
The PTI called the ex-principal secretary’s US cypher conspiracy assertion “unverified” and a “set of contradictions”.
