Alleged audio-tape on senior judges surfaces.

ISLAMABAD -- In the ongoing saga of auAdio leaks, another alleged audio tape surfaced on Friday in which PTI leadAer Fawad Chaudhry can purportedly be heard conversing with his brother Advocate Faisal Hussain about the judges of the higher judiciary.

The leak has added fuel to the ongoing controverAsy involving judges of the higher courts giving more opportunity to the ruling PML-N to criticize the PTI for having its alleged nexAus with the judiciary.

The latest audio, whose timing and authenticiAty has yet to be verified, names three top judges - Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Chief Justice Lahore High Court Muhammad Ameer BhatAti, and Supreme Court judge Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi.

Soon after the audio went viral on social meAdia, former information minister Fawad categorAically denied its authenAticity and said that he had no connection with it.

In the conversation, Fawad purportedly asks his brother Faisal, who is a lawyer of the SuApreme Court, that the top judge of the Lahore High Court wants his general meeting with Chief JusAtice Bandial be arranged. A voice, purportedly of Fawad, can be heard tellAing Faisal to meet with Justice...

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