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Presidency, PM House, all ministries being bugged
ISLAMABAD: Almost the entire federal government, all the top offices and sensitive installations, including the Presidency, PM Secretariat, Federal Secretariat offices including even the Interior Ministry, are feared to be bugged by certain foreign missions and their operators, it is learnt.A top government official, dealing with internal security, has revealed that a modern bugging device that uses rays to listen to indoor conversations from a distance of even half a kilometre is being used by certain foreign missions and operators to spy on almost all the government top offices surrounding the Presidency.
The official said that the Interior Ministry and the security agencies are well aware of this. We have even informed the interior minister that his office too is being bugged through this technology, the source said, explaining that this spying tool merely requires the operator to direct the operation of the rays on the windows of any room or building needed to be bugged.
The top security official said the Government of Pakistan has no means to counter this modern attack on our sensitive offices by some powerful foreign players. We are totally insecure and dont know how much of what we discuss in our closed-door meetings is heard by our foreign friends and enemies, the source said.
In December last year it was The News, which broke the story of an unidentified foreign hand involved in efforts to bug the proceedings of a federal cabinet meeting by installing the latest equipment at a certain distance from the PM Secretariat that was detected.
A special cabinet, which was scheduled for September 9, 2009, was delayed for two hours due to non-clearance from the security agencies of the room in which the meeting was to be held.
Security agencies, the sources said, detected some mysterious waves, adding that the meeting started only after the room was cleared security-wise.
Even at that time, the security agencies of the country discovered that certain waves were detected from the PM Secretariat, clearly indicating that something was being installed directed towards the PM Secretariat from the Diplomatic Enclave to record the conversation from certain distance.
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Earlier:-
Cabinet Meeting bugged
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: There are clear indications that some foreign hands are involved in making efforts to bug proceedings of a federal cabinet meeting by installing the latest equipment at certain distance from the PM Secretariat that was detected and foiled successfully.
Official sources confirmed to ‘The News’ on Tuesday that a special cabinet meeting was scheduled to be held with Prime Minister Raza Gilani in the chair on September 9, 2009, which was delayed for two hours due to non-clearance given by security agencies to the room in which the meeting was scheduled to be held on that day.
Security agencies, the sources said, detected some mysterious waves that resulted in delay in starting of the cabinet meeting by two hours, adding that the meeting started only after the room was cleared security-wise.
When the Cabinet Division Secretary Abdur Rauf Ch was contacted, he confirmed that almost one-and-a-half month back, one cabinet meeting was delayed by a couple of hours as security people did not clear the venue at the scheduled time. Without going into details, he said he remembered that he was then Secretary Education so he would confirm it again on Tuesday after verifying the facts.
On Tuesday, he again confirmed that security clearance in one of the cabinet meetings caused a delay of around two hours. “I did not know the reasons for that delay,” he concluded.
Another federal secretary, who wished not to be named ,also confirmed to this correspondent that one of the federal cabinet meetings was delayed a couple of months back because security agencies took more than two hours to clear the room of the meeting. However, he said that they were not told officially about the reasons for this unexpected delay in the meeting.
However, insiders say that certain waves were detected from the PM Secretariat, clearly indicating that something was being installed towards the direction of Diplomatic Enclave that could intercept and record the conversation from certain distance. When a search was made, these mysterious waves suddenly disappeared.
Top agencies of the country are investigating the incident. When the Press Secretary to the PM, Mian Jehangir, was contacted for comments, he said that he was not aware of any such incident in which the cabinet meeting was delayed.
However, he said that according to the SOP, security agencies cleared the whole site where the PM had to go. So it might have happened before his arrival at this spot, he concluded. When Minister for Law Dr Babar Awan was contacted for comments on Monday, he told this correspondent that nothing of this sort happened in his presence and added in the same breath that he might have reached the meeting on that day two hours late.
