Imran advises intelligence agencies to secure country instead of doing ‘political engineering’

Former prime minister and PTI chairman Monday said the job of intelligence agencies was to secure the country and not “political engineering”.

He termed the recent spur of audio leaks -- involving conversations of the previous and incumbent government officials -- a “very serious lapse” while giving an interview to a news channel.

“Our intelligence agencies should think of themselves. What are you doing? You are threatening people on social media. Political engineering is not your job, your job is to secure the country,” he said.

Khan issued a statement The PTI chief’s statement comes after a steady stream of audio recordings surfaced of late, of allegedly candid conversations never meant to be heard by the public, of government figures in the Prime Minister’s Office.

The PTI chief said the most important thing in the fiasco was the taping of the telephone connection of the highest office in the country.

He said the secrets of the state had been leaked to our enemies, adding there had been a violation of the security line of the Prime Minister's Office.

The security agencies must be questioned about who is responsible for this, the PTI leader said.