Pak asks UN to probe Imran’s phone hacking by India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan called on “relevant United Nations bodies” on Friday to “thoroughly investigate” reports about India allegedly using the Israeli-origin spyware “Pegasus” to spy on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, besides Indian opposition politicians, activists, journalists and global leaders.

The Pakistan foreign office said that “in view of the gravity of these reports” it was asking the UN to “bring the facts to light, and hold the Indian perpetrators to account”.

In a collaborative investigation into a data leak, the use of the software Pegasus, developed by Israel’s NSO (Niv, Shalev and Omri) Group, was reported last week by the Washington Post, the Guardian, Le Monde and 14 other news outlets.