ISLAMABAD: A report by Federal Investigation Agency has stated that the cipher sent back by then ambassador of Pakistan to the United States in March 2022 was never declassified by the PTI government of Imran Khan.
The report comes in the wake of claims by the counsel of the jailed former prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan that his in-camera trial in the cipher case was illegal as the diplomatic document was no longer secret after its declassification.
The FIA report states that the cabinet led by Imran Khan never approved the declassification of the cipher, as this proposal was opposed by the Foreign Office and the Minister of Law.
The proposal was presented before the cabinet three days after Imran Khan waved a white paper claiming it to be the cipher at a public gathering in Islamabad.
However, the cabinet with a majority did not agree to declassifying the cipher.
The report however said that the cabinet had allowed a proposal to share the copies of the cipher with the president, chief justice of Pakistan, the chairman of the Senate and the speaker of the National Assembly.
Imran Khan is currently languishing in the Adiala jail of Rawalpindi in the cipher case however the Islamabad High Court has stayed his jail trial in the case.
He has been claiming that the cipher had exposed a conspiracy by the USA to oust him from power in April 2022, a claim repeatedly rejected by Washington.
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