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‘Qureshi told ministry not to share cipher with US diplomat'

Former envoy to US says cipher episode a setback to Pak-US.
Says he did not use the word threat or conspiracy in cipher.
Khan had waved cipher before a public rally on March 27, 2022.
ISLAMABAD: Shah Mehmood Qureshi had stopped the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from sharing the cipher with the US chargé d’affaires who sought a copy of it after Imran Khan waved it before a public rally he held at the Parade Ground on March 27, 2022.

In their testimonies recorded before the trial court, former ambassador to the US, Asad Majid, declared the cipher episode a setback to Pak-US relationship as well as the adverse implication it carried for future diplomatic reporting culture whereas former additional secretary Faisal Niaz Tirmizi recalled how Washington reacted on the politicisation of a diplomatic cable.

Faisal, now Pakistan’s ambassador in the UAE, said the US chargé d’affaires at that time, Angella Aggler, sent him a WhatsApp message to ask that she wanted to hand carry a document which was waved by Imran Khan, then prime minister, alleging US interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs. Faisal was then additional secretary in MoFA dealing with America. “She further mentioned in her message that the above said message did not play well in DC,” reads his testimony before the court.


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