'Let's play with it': Imran allegedly tells Azam about US cypher in leaked audio.

ISLAMABAD -- Following the release of a set of audio clippings between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other key decision-makers in the government only three days ago, another controversial audio leak surfaced on Wednesday, this time purportedly featuring former premier Imran Khan.

The clip making rounds on social media seemingly features a conversation between Imran and his former principal secretary, Azam Khan, about a cypher that the PTI chief has for long presented as evidence of 'a foreign conspiracy' to oust him from the top office.

The development came as a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) was scheduled to take place to ascertain how informal conversations in the country's highest office - the Prime Minister's Office - were leaked.

In the audio clip, a voice, believed to be Imran's, is heard saying: 'We only have to play on this. We don't have to name [any country]. We only have to play with this, that this date was [decided] before.

'The new thing that will emerge is that the letter ...'

Here, the second voice, believed to be of Azam, is heard, suggesting holding a meeting on the cypher.

'See, if you recall, in that the ambassador has written in the end to [send] a demarche. Even if the demarche is not to be sent, as I have thought a lot about it at night - you said they raised it - I thought about how to cover all this.

'Let's hold a meeting with Shah Mahmood Qureshi (who was the foreign minister in Imran's government) and the foreign secretary. Shah Mahmood Qureshi will read out that letter and whatever he reads out will be converted into a copy. I will then make minutes [out of it and say] that the foreign secretary has prepared this.

'But its (cypher's) analysis will have to be conducted here. We will carry out the analysis and convert it into minutes as we want so that it becomes [part of] the office record.'

He elaborates that the analysis would conclude that 'it is a threat. It...

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