The National Assembly speaker and Senate chairman offices have ‘handed over’ the copies of the cipher to the Foreign Office.
The declassified copies of the confidential diplomatic cable were sent to nine top offices during tenure of PTI government, and only the Presidency had returned the copy by the time a case was registered against the ex-PM and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, on Aug 15, 2023.
were sent to both offices during the tenure of the PTI government.
Both the offices returned the copies of cipher under the security copies and to shun the use of them for more political gains, the sources said.
It is to be noted that the Foreign Office wrote to NA speaker office and Senate chairman office to return the copies of the cipher in August, 2023.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday acquitted former prime minister Imran Khan and PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi in cipher case.
