Islamabad, July 24, 2021 (PPI-OT):Pakistan has decided to seek United Nations probe into India’s use of Pegasus spyware against country’s top officials. This was announced by Advisor to the Prime Minister Shahzad Akbar along with Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain during a press briefing in Islamabad today (Saturday).
He called on the United Nations on to investigate whether India used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to spy on public figures including Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Adviser said according to the investigation of France based international media and Amnesty International, Prime Minister Imran Khan is on a list of those people for whom this spyware was used by India.
Terming it an attack on the national security and sovereignty of Pakistan, Shahzad Akbar said this Indian act is clear breach of global norms of responsible state behaviour. He said in view of the gravity of international reports on the matter, we call on the relevant UN bodies to thoroughly investigate the matter, bring the facts to light, and hold the Indian perpetrators to account.
The Adviser said we will also investigate the matter formally through our inter agencies, utilizing the services of our Foreign Office and FIA. Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said Pakistan wants peaceful, all-inclusive government in Afghanistan.
The Minister said Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib proves his connections with Pakistan’s enemies. He said Hamdullah Mohib has been using dirty language against Pakistan since May, therefore, we suspended our link with Afghan National Security Adviser’s office. Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said people like Hamdullah Mohib has no link with Afghanistan basically as their families are not living there.
He said we stand with our Afghan brethren and for this purpose we rendered many sacrifices for Afghan refugees. He said we provided opportunity to Afghan refugees to spend dignified life and currently around 6000 Afghan students are enrolled in Pakistan.
Condemning the Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with Hamdullah Mohib, the Minister urged the PML-N leadership to make the audio of this meeting public if they are sincere with the country. He said we tried our best to improve our relation with India for the economic development of the region but India’s RSS extremist ideology became major hurdle in the way to peace and became a major threat to our security doctrine.
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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Government of Pakistan
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