ISLAMABAD: A voice purported to be of the Prime Minister is heard discussing the appointment of his special assistants in the latest audio leak surfaced on Thursday.
As per details, a freshly leaked audio recording linked to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) emerged on Thursday, allegedly of Premier Shehbaz Sharif discussing the appointment of his special assistants.
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In the most recent soundbite, an unidentified person is presumably telling the premier that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ayaz Sadiq had said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was asking for a share in the selected special assistants to the Prime Minister (SAPM).
A second voice, purportedly that of PM Shehbaz, replies that PPP co-chair Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had talked to him about the matter.
The first person responds by saying, “we have to appoint Zafar Mahmood and Jahanzaib saheb.”
“I will tell you the final number today, sir,” he adds.
In response, the supposed voice of Shehbaz can be heard asking the person to “share the document”.
“It’s not just the Peoples Party. There are others,” he says.
The unidentified man claims that the “JUI and MQM will ask for it too”.
“In the MQM there is a man named Malik Ahmed Ali. They are saying he had a critical role in reaching a deal with them,” he adds.
The alleged voice of the premier asks who he is talking about, to which the first voice states that “Ali is from Karachi”.
Rana Sanaullah, the federal minister for interior, persuasively denied last week that any internal or external organizations were responsible for the PMO’s cyber security incident, which resulted in audio leaks.
The interior minister entirely disregarded spy or any other agencies’ role in the audio leaks and pointed fingers at specific people as the country’s continuing “cypher imbroglio” escalated in the wake of recent audio disclosures.
Since last month, several purportedly leaked audio recordings of PM Shehbaz, his immediate predecessor Imran, bigwigs from the PML-N and PTI and other officials have emerged, raising questions on national security.
As a number of audio recordings of conversations between important government figures, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz, and some members of the federal cabinet, were released last month, what initially appeared to be an alleged and potentially embarrassing audio leak appears to have evolved into an all-out national security incident.
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.
