Islamabad:
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) cybercrime wing launched an investigation into the alleged use of Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, the account of social media to disseminate what the civil servants called on an anti-state narration ” on Tuesday.
According to sources, a team of three members of FIA Cybercrime Islamabad, led by Ayaz Khan, went to Adiala prison on Tuesday to question the founder of PTI on his handle X.
The investigators asked who operated the account, from where he was accessible and if the founder of the PTI had authorized others to use it. They also learned if he was aware of the content published from the account that was deemed “anti-state”.
“My account X, who uses it – I will not disclose,” said the founder of the PTI to the team, according to sources.
Imran Khan would have asked for a written questionnaire from investigators and insisted that he would only respond in the presence of his lawyers. The FIA team stayed at Adiala prison for more than an hour, sources added.
The former Prime Minister had denounced what he had called an “unconstitutional trial” within Adiala prison and urged supporters to prepare for a mass rally in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The authorities have described the message as “anti-state” content, causing new control in the use of its social media platforms.
In his statement, Khan said: “More than three hundred manufactured affairs have been recorded against me, which I am confronted with. I will emerge with courts without concluding. Each form of oppression has been inflicted on our party. My wife and I would be released if business was decided on merit.”
He accused the government of violating human rights and restricting its access to basic facilities. “My books are retained and, in eight months, I was authorized to speak to my children only one once. The judges of my cases do not hold power; they cannot conduct trials independently,” he said.
Calling the procedure against him unconstitutional, Khan said: “This oppressive system cannot bear long. It is essential that you retweet my account messages, in a clear message of unit and alignment.”
He also ordered his party to announce a large public gathering in KP, saying that participants from across the country should meet “to stand together against the darkness that swallows us”.
In another article on X, Imran criticized the government’s policy to expel Afghans from Pakistan and the ongoing military operations in KP, warning that such measures cost lives. “Because of these policies, our own people are martyred everywhere,” he said.
He urged that “sustainable peace only makes dialogue. This approach can never establish peace ”. He added that “no operation can succeed without the cooperation of stakeholders, and no lasting solution can be found.”
