Drop Site News has published a document, claiming it to be the original cipher from March 7, 2022, obtained from a military source. The world now understands this to be irrefutable evidence. Let us unravel it right from here.
Pakistan’s establishment suppressed it for four years, filed cases against people regarding it, and claimed no such cipher even existed. The truth did not emerge from within Pakistan, but through an American investigative agency that brought it before the world. This fact alone is a confession of guilt.
Donald Lu told Pakistan’s ambassador in clear terms: “Everything will be forgiven in Washington” if the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeded, and simultaneously warned that if it did not, Pakistan would face isolation. This was not diplomacy. It was a threat delivered to the ambassador of a sovereign state. The National Security Committee stated explicitly in its two meetings that this was unacceptable and overt interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs, and the government issued a rightful diplomatic protest (demarche).
In May 2022, as president, I formally wrote to Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, demanding the establishment of a judicial commission, open hearings, a full investigation, and that the truth be placed on record. This letter was published in all newspapers. (Please read the Urdu translation of the following letter; every word in it carries historical weight in such international matters.)
The Chief Justice received that letter. No comment. No action was taken. The judiciary’s silence marked the beginning of surrender before the institutions. If that commission had been formed, these questions would have been asked under oath: Who received the cipher? Who acted on it? Who facilitated a foreign signal within the country? And which institutions of the Pakistani state cooperated in removing an elected Prime Minister?
Pakistan would have known the truth. The person who had warned the nation would not have been imprisoned on fabricated charges stemming from that very document, whose investigation the state had refused. Instead, the nation received four continuous years of devastation.
Not just one government was toppled, but democracy was torn to shreds and dismantled through complete institutional conspiracy at every level. Parliament was turned into a “chamber of foul interests.” Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which held the largest public mandate in Pakistan’s history, had its electoral symbol stripped away, and its seats were brazenly handed over to others by court order solely so that a party with 17 seats could be handed a fake two-thirds majority.
PTI workers were tried in military courts. Its voters were disenfranchised. Its leader was imprisoned on the same charges born from that very document whose review the state had refused. The 26th and 27th amendments were forced through, turning the judiciary into the executive’s handmaiden and, instead of a protector of rights, an instrument for stabilizing usurped power.
Now, tally the human cost. Forty-four percent of our population lives below the poverty line, meaning one hundred and fifty million people—twenty million more than in 2019. Real incomes have been halved to ruins. Electricity and petrol prices are skyrocketing. Inflation and unemployment are at their peak. A barely three percent GDP growth rate cannot keep pace with population growth, let alone provide jobs to new workers. Terrorism is at its highest level. Investment is not coming in, but fleeing. Twenty-two million youth are neither working nor studying, while twenty-five million children are out of school. The direction is crystal clear: Pakistan is becoming poorer at an even faster rate.
These are not just statistics. These are the children who go to sleep hungry. These are the youth drowning in boats heading toward shores that might kill them because their own country is pushing them away. These are the mothers forced to choose between medicine and bread. The plight of all these people is the direct, traceable, and forensic outcome of that April 2022 decision, in which the democratic mandate of the Pakistani people was sabotaged. This is no natural disaster. This is the price of a conspiracy, whose accomplices now stand exposed before the public.
Donald Lu issued the threat. He did not topple the government. Pakistanis toppled a Pakistani government. General Bajwa in uniform. Some in judicial robes. Some in turbans. Corrupt politicians. And those who opened their mouths in Dubai for regime change using the nation’s looted treasures. All of them prioritized a foreign signal over the people and the protection of this Constitution. The criminals were not just external, but internal as well. This must remain clear and forever on record.
To those who say, “This is the past, move on,” I say: Without the rule of law, investment cannot come. Without an independent judiciary, there can be no rule of law. And such a judiciary, built mostly on corrupt judges, can never be independent. The path forward passes through the truth, not around it.
Pakistan’s economic ruin, its institutional decay, and complete corruption—the national termite eating away at everything—are not acts of God but consequences of deeds. This is the direct and traceable outcome of a criminal regime change, facilitated from outside and executed from within.
As the contents of the cipher are now before the public, the record is clear. These same usurpers are still in power and plotting the destruction of my country. The only sensible and just path forward is crystal clear:
Let go now, and let my people live.
It pains me to quote Iqbal to those betraying this nation, but this verse is timeless.
Jafar from Bengal and Sadiq from Deccan
The shame of Adam, shame of faith, shame of homeland
The cipher has spoken. Now Pakistan must speak.
