Imran writes to president, seeks action against senior army officers.

ISLAMABAD -- Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has called on President Dr Arif Alvi to act against the alleged abuse of power and violations of laws as well as the Constitution and take note of 'serious wrongdoings' which are undermining the country's national security. Khan in a letter written to Alvi said that the President in his capacity as the Supreme Comnmander of the Armed Forces should initiate the process of drawing up the 'clear operational lines' for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in the backdrop of a press conference by two military bureaucrats. He also asked Alvi to institute an inquiry to 'identify the guilty' and hold them accountable. Khan lamented that since the PTI government's ouster, the party had been confronted with 'an ever increasing scale of false allegations, harassment, arrests and custodial torture'. The ex-premier claimed that Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah had repeatedly issued life threats to him. He also reiterated his claims about a conspiracy being hatched to assassinate him by the interior minister, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and a senior military official. 'The plot was operationalized ... during our long march but Allah saved me and the assassination attempt failed,' he said. In his letter, Khan claimed that the Official Secrets Act was breached when a 'confidential conversation between myself as prime minister, the Chief of Army Staff and the director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), on a supposedly secure line, was leaked to the media. 'This raises a very serious question as to who or what organisation was involved in doing a clearly illegal wiretap of the PM's secure phone line? This is a breach of national security at the highest level,' he said. The PTI chief also went on to talk about the cipher controversy, and noted that the National Security Committee (NSC) meeting held during his tenure had 'decided this was an unacceptable intrusion into our internal matters' which was also later reaffirmed during the meeting held under the Shehbaz government. 'In view of this, a joint press conference was held on 27 October 2022 by the DG ISI and DG ISPR,' he said and questioned how the head of Pakistan's premier intelligence agency could...