Islamabad: After PTI Chairman Imran Khan questioned the panel investigating judiciary audio leaks. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said the judicial body can investigate the callers.
A day ago, Khan underlined the commission’s Terms of Reference’s “deliberate omission” of surveillance perpetrators.
“The commission headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa. It will possess the power to probe into who is taping the audios and who’s leaking them,” the minister said.
The show’s interior czar highlighted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s three-member commission to examine judiciary audio leaks.
Moreover, A day earlier, the government announced a high-powered judicial commission. Its headed by senior puisne judge of Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa. It also includes Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and IHC CJ Aamer Farooq.
“The government was under pressure from civil society and others to pursue inquiry on the matter of audio leaks,” the minister said, adding that the government needs material for the Supreme Judicial Council.
Moreover, Sanaullah warned against using privacy to commit crimes, referencing audio leaks.
Khan claimed the commission’s Terms of Reference “suffer from a deliberate omission”. As well as don’t expose “behind the unlawful and unconstitutional surveillance.”
Cricketer-turned-politician tweeted furiously.
Whule, They disregard who is spying on the PM office and Supreme Court judges illegally. “The Commission should investigate who are these powerful and unknown elements who tap and record telephone conversations of citizens, including high public functionaries,” he tweeted.
Khan called the discoveries “serious breach of privacy guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution.”
The ousted prime minister demanded accountability for all audio leaks.
“Not only those who illegally retrieve data through unlawful phone tapping and surveillance should be held accountable but those who through fabrication and tampering of different phone calls leak them on social media also need to be held accountable,” Khan tweeted.
The PTI leader responded to the privacy breach by saying that rule-of-law democracies believe the state should not arbitrarily invade lives.
“Right to privacy and dignity guaranteed under Article 14 are patently infringed whenever the state unlawfully surveils an individual,” he tweeted.
The ex-premier also questioned the PM office’s “secure phone line”.
While, Recent leaks used the Prime Minister’s Office’s secure phone line. He said “audacious tapping operate in a manner outside the command and even knowledge of the PM of Pakistan.”
Moreover, Khan probed leakers. “Who are these actors who are above the law and outside the command of even the prime minister of the country, and who resort to such illegal surveillance with impunity?” he tweeted, urging the commission to name them.
