Islamabad: The spying agency of Pakistan ISI had admitted tapping 26,940 phone calls in four months.
The information was disclosed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday during the hearing of an old case regarding the power of spy agencies to tap telephones.
After examining the document, the court stated in its order that the spy agency had tapped 6,523 phone numbers in Feb, 6,819 in March, 6,742 in April and 6,856 in May.
Pakistani Daily Newspaper Dawn reported that Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Sajid Ilyas Bhatti submitted a sealed envelope in court.
Meanwhile the names of people whose numbers had been tapped had not disclosed.
The classified report was furnished on behalf of the ISI by the DAG in compliance with a May 22 direction, when the law officer had presented another report prepared by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) which suggests that it had tapped 5,594 phone numbers across the country.
A three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, heard a 19-year-old suo motu case, initiated by former Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah in 1996.
Shah had taken notice of a device found attached with his telephone by certain spy agencies.
Bureau Report
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