ISLAMABAD: According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), making the contents of the alleged “threat letter” public would jeopardize the country’s national interest.
Prime Minister Imran Khan discussed the letter on Friday evening’s live show and defined a cipher as a coded message given by embassies to their home country.
According to the foreign ministry, the ambassador’s coded communication should not be disclosed.
According to the story, a senior source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Geo News on condition of anonymity: “The Foreign Office believes that the foreign secretary should not make public the contents of the (coded) telegraph dated March 7.”
“Ambassadors should be encouraged to express their evaluations based on their contacts with their host country’s interlocutors, and any action contrary to this would be counterproductive to the national interest,” the official said.
He said that this is common practice around the globe. “A communication from an ambassador is never disclosed for political objectives.” There is not one instance of this, “he said.
The usage of communications about diplomatic relations would prevent officials from the host nations from communicating with their Pakistani counterparts, whose role it is to keep their headquarters informed of pertinent information.