PTI’s Asad Umar has also been arrested in the cypher leak case after the party chairman Imran Khan and vice chairman under the same charges.

The PTI top tier leadership is being accused of leaking the diplomatic cypher at the heart of PTI claims that the United States hatched a conspiracy to remove Imran Khan from power.

The police on Sunday arrested Asad Umar in Islamabad’s F-8 sector. He would be handed over the FIA which registered a case again PTI leaders on August 18 over the alleged leak, a police sources told Aaj News.

The police on Saturday arrested Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad shortly after he held a press conference where confirm that he had met western ambassadors at a breakfast hosted by Australian High Commissioner.

Imran khan, who is already in jail after being sentenced to three years in prison, has also been arrested in the cypher leak case registered under the Official Secrets Act.