
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said on Thursday that Pakistan's classified information had never been leaked.
Talking to a news channel, the spokesman said that the leakage of the United States classified documents was a big issue and that nations should evolve a foolproof security mechanism for such communications in future.
He said that at present the situation was worrying for the whole world but with the passage of time things will become normal.
Basit said the Wikileaks cables contained references of some meetings and some commentaries by US diplomats which were communicated to their head-office.
Normally the communications made by the diplomats to their head- quarters is in a coded from, he said adding that thieir interception would serve no purpose.
He said the diplomats were duty bound to pass on the information about their activities to their head-quarters.
The Spokesman said that the US was worried about the leakage of its secret information because it would face difficulty in its diplomatic ties.
Basit said that every country had a procedural mechanism to ensure the secrecy of its classified documents, adding Pakistan had an excellent track record in this connection.
To a question he said neither Pakistan nor the US was in a position to confirm or reject the matters raised by the Wikileaks cables, adding that there was no need to do that.
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