INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
LONDON: A leading British digital forensic organization has confirmed in its 43-pages report that former accountability court judge Arshad
Malik secretly recorded videos and audios genuine, authentic and consistent with the original recordings
This correspondent has seen a copy of the forensic firm which will be submitted before Islamabad High Court this week in former Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif conviction case
Arshad Malik, the former accountability judge who convicted Nawaz Sharif in assets beyond means case, was secretly recorded as saying that
he was blackmailed and put under pressure to convict the former premier and that he regretted convicting him
The secret recording was made by Nasir Butt, PMLN UK leader who met the judge on several occasions and recorded him secretly.Multan video
scandal: What did Judge Arshad Malik tell FIA team?The forensic report has been notarized by Charles Drostan Guthrie, Notary public, who was
commissioned by Nasir Mehmood having been prepared by Cyfor - a specialist organisation providing services in the areas of eDiscovery and
Digital Forensics with expertise in advanced date analytic and data recovery
The report has been stamped and attested by Her Majesty Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The forensic examination at Cyfor was carried out by forensic expert James Zjali who states in the report: &I was instructed on the 28th of
August 2019 by Lex law Solicitors and Advocates on behalf of Nasir Mehmood Butt.&The letter of instruction by Mr
Butt, seeking to assist the court in authentication, asked him to carry out a forensic analysis and authentication examination of the
Original Recording and opine on the following issues: whether the recording is authentic and an original recording; whether editing,
modification and manipulation of any form of the recording has occurred whether audio, picture or others; whether the recording has been
spliced and /or had had any audio element added or removed; the time and date of the recording; whether the phone at the time of recording
was synced to Pakistan time zone or UK time zone in order to provide the time and date stamp and the make and the serial number of the
device used to capture the original recording
The forensic report mentions that it carried out examination of the original audio and examination of a copy of the video
Its understood that the original video was not given to the forensic firm on advise of the law firm that the original video could be damaged
or compromised in forensic therefore the examination should be done on a copy
The forensic report says the examination resulted in conclusions that the exhibit entitled ‘VID_20190506_201705.mp4& is consistent with an
original recording; that the exhibit entitled ‘VID_20190506_211010.mp4& is consistent with an original recording; that the information
relating to the time of capture cannot be verified; that no opinion can be given on the serial number of the device used to capture the
original recordings; and that the device used to do the recording was a ‘Samsung with model number 'SM-N950F'.The Cyfor report writes:
''the audio and visual events are synchronized throughout and there are no issues with the chronology of events within either exhibit.&It
adds: &Critical listening was performed to determine any audible traces which can provide info as to the authenticity of the eroding
There are no clicks and pops which would be consistent with editing within the exhibit
The perceptual quality of the recordings is consistent with the specifications
There are no instantaneous changes in relation to the speak to noise ratio, background noise ratio, broadband nice, speaker levels or
reverberations.&The forensic expert says in his witness statement: &I may be required to attend court to be cross examined on my report by a
cross examiner assisted by an expert
I am likely to be the subject of public adverse criticism by the judge if the court concludes that I have not taken reasonable care in
trying to meet the standards set out above.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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