'Let's play with it': Imran Khan's audio on US cypher leaked, former Pak PM says 'I haven't played yet'

As audio leaks between Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and other leaders from the ruling party have been making the government anxious, a dark web message has threatened to release all the hacked audios from the country by this Friday. Meanwhile, the latest in the series of the audio leaks is of former Prime Minister Imran Khan who can be purportedly heard telling his key aide Azam Khan to “play with the United States’ conspiracy” that allegedly aimed to topple his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

Imran Khan has long been claiming foreign conspiracy behind his ouster, particularly hinting at the America on several occasions, to topple his PTI government and replace it with Shehbaz Sharif's government in Pakistan.

In the new audio clip, Khan can be heard directing Azam to play with the “cypher issue”, without naming the United States. "Ok, so now let’s just play with it. We don’t need to name America. We will just play over it and say that the date was already there," he said.

To this, Azam suggested a meeting and said, "Sir, I was thinking…that we should hold a meeting on this cypher issue. If you might remember, the ambassador mentioned at the last of the letter that we should issue a demarche."

Imran Khan's leaked audio on US cypher

"It is clear from this audio that Azam and Imran Khan tried till the last time that the state no secret should be public. Those who were denying till yesterday that there is any cypher, today itself through this audio They are denying their narrative," Mian Muhammad Aslam, Iqbal Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, wrote while tweeting the audio.

Imran Khan responds

Responding to the audio leak, Imran Khan said that it is good that the audio got leaked and said that the cypher should also be leaked too so that people come to know about the conspiracy.

"It is good that the audio got leaked, I would say the cypher should also be leaked so that everyone should come to know how big was that foreign conspiracy," Imran Khan told reporters.

PTI leaders react

Responding to the leak, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry tweeted, "The new leaks only confirm that an attempt was made to hide the US post from the Prime Minister."

Another PTI leader Hammad Azhar tweeted, "I think the cypher should be released now and the people of Pakistan should decide whether it was a conspiracy or even more than that."

This audio leak comes only three days after the leak of a set of audio clippings between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other key decision-makers in the government. As the leak raises questions about the national security, the Pak PM has already ordered an inquiry into the matter.

Audio leak saga to continue?

Meanwhile, a dark web message has claimed that it will release all audios from Pakistan on September 30, saying that no more negotiations and offers (to sell the data) will be accepted. The dark web on Tuesday said that it will release the data on Friday next at 9:30 am. The message said, "For undisclosed reasons, I will be releasing ALL files this Friday (09/30)."

The dark web message added, "Hopefully this release will bring betterment to Pakistan."