Govt will exercise constitutional & legal options to ensure cyber security: Azam Nazeer Tarar

ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (SABAH): Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar has said that the government will exercise constitutional and legal options to ensure cyber security and avert incidents such as that of the audio leaks.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday, he said that the immediate steps have been taken by the State institutions and standard operating procedures (SOPs) revisited to ensure full security of important places following the emergence of audio leaks.

He said Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is having consultations to form a committee to probe into the matter.

He said the committee to be headed by Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah will have representation from all security agencies.

The minister said former Prime Minister and Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan compromised country’s interest for his politics in cipher case.

Azam Nazeer Tarar said that the Supreme Court has written in its verdict that cipher was not a conspiracy.