Imran Khan demands Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s resignation over PMO audio leaks

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Lahore,
Sep
26:
Pakistan’s
ousted
premier
Imran
Khan
on
Monday
demanded
the
resignation
of
Prime
Minister
Shehbaz
Sharif
after
a
slew
of
audio
clips
related
to
informal
conversations
between
the
premier
and
Cabinet
officials
surfaced.

Pakistan’s
Intelligence
Bureau
has
been
ordered
to
investigate
the
security
breach
resulting
from
it.

“PM
Shehbaz
Sharif
should
resign
after
the
audio
leaks
involving
him,
some
Cabinet
members
and
government
officials
have
surfaced,”
Khan,
Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf
party
chairman,
said.

“In
the
audio
leaks,
Shehbaz
is
talking
about
bringing
machinery
from
India
for
his
niece
Maryam
Nawaz’s
son-in-law
(Raheel
Munir).
If
Shehbaz
has
any
shame
left
in
him,
he
should
resign
forthwith
otherwise
we
will
make
him
go
home,
Khan
said
while
addressing
the
Government
College
University
(GCU)
here.

Khan
further
said
another
audio
related
to
Maryam
Nawaz,
the
daughter
of
former
premier
Nawaz
Sharif,
will
soon
be
leaked
in
which
she
could
be
heard
telling
her
father
(Nawaz
Sharif)
that
Imran
is
going
to
be
disqualified
by
the
Election
Commission
in
the
Toshakhana
case
for
not
disclosing
the
information
regarding
the
gifts
received
from
the
state
depository
in
his
assets
declaration.

The
leaked
conversations
have
put
a
question
mark
on
the
flaws
in
the
cyber
security
of
the
highest
office
(Prime
Minister’s
Office)
of
Pakistan.

In
the
over
two-minute-long
audio
clip,
Prime
Minister
Shehbaz
can
be
heard
saying
that
Maryam
Nawaz
had
asked
him
to
facilitate
her
son-in-law
Raheel
with
the
import
of
machinery
for
a
power
plant
from
India.
Maryam’s
daughter
Mehrunnisa
married
industrialist
Chaudhry
Munir’s
son
Raheel
in
December
2015.

Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf
party’s
senior
leader
Fawad
Chaudhry
said
in
a
tweet:
In
a
major
cyber-attack
on
the
PM
Office
100
hours
of
conversations
of
PM
and
cabinet
members
have
been
leaked
to
an
international
hacker
website.

“The
hacker
has
asked
for
USD
345,000
for
a
detailed
record,
that
is
about
8
GB.
The
conversations
include
political,
economic
and
security
related
issues,”
he
said.