Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah demanded on Sunday a forensic audit of an alleged leaked phone call involving the mother-in-law of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, and said that the judges mentioned in the audio should step down.
\nAddressing a press conference in Faisalabad, Sanaullah said the CJP should take suo motu notice of the audio leak and order a forensic of the phone call.
\n\u201cThose involved in the leaked audio must be questioned, and the judges who are being referred to in the audio [the chief justice] should show some grace and step down.\u201d
\nRana Sanaullah said the purported audio leak is a \u201cmatter of concern\u201d for the general public and politicians alike and it must be thoroughly investigated.
\nThe interior minister\u2019s presser comes after an alleged phone call between CJP Bandial\u2019s mother-in-law and the PTI counsel\u2019s wife was leaked online.
\nIn the purported audio, the two women can be heard discussing early elections, their support for the chief justice, and their resentment towards the incumbent government.
\nThe two women also talk about their concern for the chief justice amid the ongoing election delay case which is being heard by a three-member bench at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
\nThey also vaguely discuss being in a Lahore rally where there were hundreds of thousands of people.
\nThe bench \u2014 headed by CJP Bandial and comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar as members \u2014 in its April 4 order, directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold the polls in Punjab on May 14.
\nSpecial Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Ata Tarar shared the audio clip on his Twitter account, saying that he is sure about the deep conspiracy after hearing the audio clip.
\n\u201cThe Constitution and law have been trampled for the sake of families. The families of Chief Sahib and two colleagues are trying to bring Imran Niazi to power by holding early elections along with attending [political] rallies,\u201d Tarar tweeted.
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