Asad Majeed Khan, who wrote the ‘cipher’ that former PM Imran Khan based his claims of foreign interference on, has been made secretary in the foreign affairs division.

The post, commonly referred to as foreign secretary, is the highest position offered to bureaucrats in the foreign service.

The diplomat has served as Pakistan’s ambassador in the US, and was serving as the ambassador in Blegium, European Union and Luxembourg when he got the new appointment.

He was serving in the US when Imran Khan’s government was removed from power through a vote of no confidence on April 10. A few days before he left government, Imran Khan showed a cipher sent by the ambassador to claim that the US had orchestrated the conspiracy that led to the VONC.

Ambassador Majeed was even summoned by the National Security Committee’s meeting where the cipher was discussed, where he briefed the country’s political and military leadership. The meeting had concluded that there was ‘no evidence of foreign conspiracy’.