Imran urges SC to hear audio leaks plea

PTI chief writes letter, seeking hearing of petition at the earliest

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has submitted a letter to the Supreme Court (SC), requesting that a hearing on his audio leaks petition be fixed "at the earliest possible opportunity".

The detailed letter to all judges of the apex court, including Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, was shared in a tweet on the party's official Twitter handle on Monday.

According to the letter, Imran has urged the SC to set the matter for an immediate hearing as he had filed the constitutional petition in October last year.

"Unconfirmed audio/video leaks continue to surface one after another," read the tweet.

"The chief justice and honorable judges are also requested to take steps to protect the fundamental rights under the Constitution, especially the right to privacy of the citizens under Article 14," the party tweeted.

It added that Imran presented eight important questions in front of the chief justice and judges of the apex court regarding the matter.

In the letter, Imran noted that "constitutional guarantees afforded to the people of Pakistan are being violated with impunity" and referred to the case of Senator Azam Swati who "suffered from the worst kind of invasion of privacy possible".

The letter comes a day after Imran demanded of the apex court to take notice of the audio leak of his party member Dr Yasmin Rashid’s conversation with the Lahore CCPO.

Furthermore, recently, alleged audio clips of former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi came to the fore, wherein he was allegedly directing two men to fix certain cases before a particular judge of the apex court.