Imran urges Alvi to 'act now' to stop abuse of power.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson and former premier Imran Khan called on President Dr Arif Alvi to 'act now' and stop the abuse of power as well as the violation of laws and the Constitution.

In a letter to the president on Sunday, the former premier stated that since the removal of the PTI government, the country has been 'confronted with an ever-increasing scale of false allegations, harassment, arrests, and custodial torture'.

He alleged that Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah 'repeatedly issued death threats' to him and that he was informed of an assassination plot 'hatched by PM Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah' and a senior military official.

'The plot was operationalised earlier this week during our long march, but Allah saved me and the assassination attempt failed,' he stated.

Imran requested that as the head of the State of Pakistan and 'also as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces under Article 243 (2)' of the Constitution, President Alvi take note of the 'following serious wrongdoings that undermine Pakistan's national security'.

He further asked Alvi to lead an inquiry to identify the guilty 'and hold them accountable'.

In a three-point list, he highlighted the 'wrongdoings'.

Firstly, he maintained that 'a breach of the Official Secrets Act occurred when [a] confidential conversation between myself as PM, the COAS [chief of armed staff]' and another military official were leaked to the media.

He claimed that this raised the 'very serious question as to who or what organisation was involved in doing a clearly illegal wiretap of the PM's secure phone line', adding that the incident was a breach of national security at the highest level.

In his second point, he stated that the issue of the cipher was 'sent by our ambassador to the US in which the US official conveyed a direct threat of regime change to our envoy who reported the same in quotes as was conveyed to him'.

He furthered that the National Security Council meeting held on the issue during his reign as the premier 'clearly decided this was an unacceptable intrusion into our internal matters and the NSC decided on a demarche to be issued by MoFA to the US envoy in Islamabad'.

Imran further stated that the NSC decision was 'reaffirmed by the NSC meeting held under the Shehbaz Sharif government'.

'In view of this, a joint press conference held on 27 October 2022 by the DG ISI and...