One other alleged audio leak surfaced on Friday, this time being linked to senior PTI chief Fawad Chaudhry — who has categorically rejected it — purportedly speaking about superior court docket judges.
“I’ve no reference to this audio,” tweeted Chaudhry.
The leaked dialog, first publicly shared by journalists on social media, reveals photos of Chaudhry and his brother Faisal Hussain, figuring out them because the folks behind the voices speaking about arranging a gathering between judges of the superior courts — a dialog that Chaudhry stated by no means came about.
A voice, implied to be Chaudhry’s, may be heard saying {that a} senior choose of the Lahore Excessive Courtroom needs to satisfy a prime choose of the Supreme Courtroom. The audio additionally makes reference to one of many judges linked to an earlier audio leak.
The voice instructed to be Chaudhry’s will also be heard asking the opposite particular person to “get 4 extra sections imposed in a case on Tarar in order that he feels some stress”.
Whereas the clip solely mentions Tarar and never the complete title, it seems to be a reference to PML-N chief Atta Tarar who was named in a hooliganism case filed in the course of the earlier Punjab authorities, led by Chaudhry Pervez Elahi.
The clip — which seems to be a stitched model of various audio bits extracted from a single dialog — has not been independently verified by Daybreak.com. The timing of the alleged audio can also be not clear from the recording.
In his rebuttal to the audio, the PTI chief dismissed the recording as faux.
“One other faux audio has been thrown available in the market in my title. This audio has nothing to do with me,” stated the PTI chief, including that neither did he meet the judges talked about within the clip nor did he ask any of them to assist one another.
Right to privacy
The latest clip comes a few weeks after PTI Chairman Imran Khan wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and different Supreme Courtroom judges, and sought “enforcement” of the elemental rights of the general public — together with the Structure’s Article 14 (elementary proper to privateness) — in reference to a sequence of personal telephonic conversations of political leaders which have surfaced on-line over the previous few months.
Imran had written a letter to the highest choose after a phone call of PTI Central Punjab president Dr Yasmin Rashid with the previous CCPO Ghulam Mehmood Dogar was launched on social media. Within the leaked audio, the PTI chief was allegedly chatting with the police officer, asking if he had obtained the posting orders after he was reinstated because the Lahore CCPO by a Supreme Courtroom bench. As per the audio clip, the police officer replied that no orders had reached him.
It was solely the most recent in a spree of personal conversations — principally involving opposition leaders and their allies — that had been leaked.
In his letter, Imran stated “varied ex-public officers, myself included, and even non-public members of the general public have suffered” from these leaks whereas particularly mentioning PTI Senator Azam Swati’s alleged inappropriate video leak. He had termed the leaks to be “unverified, edited, tampered, pieced collectively and even fabricated conversations’.
This audio leak additionally comes on the heels of two alleged audio clips of Elahi on social media wherein he’s supposedly giving instructions to 2 males relating to fixing sure instances earlier than a selected apex court docket choose.
Audio leaks
In September last year, a slew of audio recordings of conversations between key government figures — including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz and some members of the federal cabinet — were released.
The content of the recordings appeared to be informal conversations in the Prime Minister’s Office — as opposed to recorded phone conversations.
First, a recording of PM Shehbaz surfaced where he was discussing with an unidentified official the possibility of facilitating the import of Indian machinery for a power project that was a concern of Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law, Raheel.
Further recordings surfaced a day later, which were shared on social media by several PTI leaders, concerning former finance minister Miftah Ismail and the resignations of PTI lawmakers from the National Assembly.
One clip purportedly features a conversation between PML-N Vice President Maryam and the premier about Miftah, whereby a voice thought to belong to the previous says he “doesn’t know what he’s doing” and desires for the return of PML-N stalwart Ishaq Dar.
A second clip allegedly issues a dialog between the prime minister, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Legislation Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, Inside Minister Rana Sanaullah and Ayaz Sadiq concerning the resignations of PTI lawmakers from the Nationwide Meeting.
A 3rd clip purportedly includes a dialog between Maryam Nawaz and PM Shehbaz relating to the return of former military chief retired Gen Pervez Musharraf.
PM Shehbaz had termed the surfacing of audio leaks a “very severe lapse” and introduced {that a} high-level committee can be constituted to probe the matter.
On the similar time, the premier had additionally stated that Imran’s audio leaks have been “an irrefutable endorsement” that the PTI chief was the “largest liar on the face of the earth”.