Former prime minister Imran Khan has refused to meet with the Federal Investigation Agency team over an investigation into the ‘anti-state narrative’, which the latter claims was shared from the former’s social media account.

Sources within the jail told Aaj News that Khan has declined to answer any questions from the FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing.

On Wednesday, the wing that deals with the growing threats of cybercrimes sought permission from the judicial magistrate to interrogate the Adiala Jail inmate for sharing “anti-state activities” and “anti-state narratives” on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The institution has claimed the content was allegedly shared from Khan’s profile.

Khan is serving out his sentences in the cypher and the iddat cases at the Punjab’s jail. On Thursday, he appeared through a video link in the Supreme Court in the National Accountability Bureau law amendment case.

According to the plea, Khan allegedly built a false narrative and spread misinformation against state institutions of Pakistan, including the army, through his X account having more than 20 million followers.

The wing contended that the video uploaded on May 26 was “misleading, intimidating, and amounts to inciting an officer/soldier of armed forces of Pakistan to mutiny.”

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It alleged that the post was purportedly a mischievous act of subversion within the various ranks of the armed forces of Pakistan and created a rift among the pillars of the state.

The alleged video is viewed by 4.2 million X users, 56,000 have liked it, and 38,000 have re-shared it on the social media platform, according to the application.

But the PTI founder has refused to become part of the FIA investigation and refused to response to any of their questions.

He has maintained that he would respond to questions in the presence of his lawyers.

‘Khan’s X account being operated from abroad’

Meanwhile, PTI Secretary Information Rauf Hassan has claimed that the official account of PTI founder Imran Khan was being operated from abroad and the party’s social media head was based in the United States.

In an interview, Hasan stated that the party would have to investigate who uploaded the video related to former Bangladesh president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Khan’s official account.

Hasan added that the PTI MNAs and MPAs who re-shared the video did so in their personal capacity.

After the FIA announced an inquiry into the video, Hasan backtracked and said he has not even seen the video himself.

The PTI spokesperson stated that if the video was found to be against PTI’s narrative, it would be deleted.