Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday contended that cypher exists and it is with the chief justice and is seen by the president and the army chief, saying the alleged confession by Azam Khan, the ex-principal secretary to the prime minister, is “full of contradictions”.
In a strongly-worded response to the alleged “confessional statement” by Azam Khan, the ‘missing’ ex-principal secretary to the prime minister, PTI spokesman Rauf Hassan said the former top bureaucrat must have been forced to become an approver against Imran Khan.
“The veracity of Azam Khan’s statement is yet to be confirmed, but no one can deny that he’s been missing since June 17,” he added. He said that a formal case was registered with ICT police after Azam Khan went missing mysteriously from the federal capital about a month ago, and to date, the police failed to trace him down.
He said the irony was that his confessional statement came to the surface before his recovery, adding recording statement of 164 by a missing person in front of the magistrate was unimaginable in the eyes of legal experts.
“[…] disclosing the contents of 164 statements of a missing person was a separate crime of its nature,” he added.
He stated that Azam Khan’s alleged statement is no different than the pressers done by incarcerated PTI leaders who were then forced to join the Tehreek-e-Istehkam and some other so-called parties recently set up with the backing of the establishment.
