PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan addresses a press conference outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on March 21, 2024 — Geo News
Gohar Terms Donald Lu’s Remarks as Lie, Seeks Clarification from Ex-Envoy Asad Majeed
Rawalpindi: As ciphergate came to the limelight, again, after Donald Lu’s testimony before a Congressional panel yesterday (Wednesday), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan termed the US assistant secretary of state’s statement on the diplomatic cable ‘controversy’ a lie and demanded the reopening of an inquiry.
“I’ve held a detailed meeting with PTI founder Imran Khan today,” Barrister Gohar said while speaking to journalists outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Thursday.
The politico demands a “clarification statement” from former Pakistani ambassador to the US Muhammad Asad Majeed after Lu’s testimony in which the latter, once again, rejected former prime minister Khan’s allegations that the United States engineered his ouster from power by supporting the then opposition’s no-confidence motion in April 2022.
He went on to say that Majeed had also admitted holding a meeting with the US assistant secretary of state. Barrister Gohar claimed that Pakistan had conveyed a strong demarche to the US over the former envoy’s recommendations who confirmed the veracity of the aforementioned diplomatic cable.
The statements delivered by Lu before a Congressional panel on Wednesday (yesterday) opened discussions over the cipher saga, again, in which he termed Khan’s “conspiracy theory” a “lie”, and “complete falsehood.”
He claimed that the diplomatic cable did not accuse the US government or him personally of taking steps against the former premier… - The News
