ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday called upon the
government to make public Dawn Leaks inqu
iry report to allay a host of doubts and misgivings.
In a statement, Spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the unceremonious sacking of Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi and Principal Information Officer Rao Tehseen, the unprecedented advice to APNS to proceed against the editor and reporter of Daily Dawn and the highly unprecedented public rejection by the ISPR of actions taken by the
government in the matter make it absolutely necessary that the report is made public.
“Confusion is confounded by the remarks attributed earlier to Tariq Fatemi dismissing the reports that he had been shown the door. The categorical statement of interior minister in Karachi on Saturday that his ministry had not yet issued any notification just when the PM Office had indeed issued orders has given rise to several questions that need answers,” he said.
“The statement by the ISPR through tweet rejecting publicly the order issued by the PM Office lends a new dimension to
the incident that will give rise to some serious questions which will refuse to die dow
n,R21; he said. “The botching up of
the incident reveals
the incompetence of the
government and insistence to keep
the inqu
iry report under wraps will only complicate the matters further,” he added.
Babar said that initially the
government sought to clarify the news report sometimes as ‘baseless and fabricated’ and sometimes as ‘planted’. Besides declaring it as untrue, the
government also te
rmed the report as posing ‘threat to the national security’, without explaining how, he said.
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