ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday called upon the government to make public Dawn Leaks inquiry 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 down,” he said. “The botching up of the incident reveals the incompetence of the government and insistence to keep the inquiry 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 termed the report as posing ‘threat to the national security’, without explaining how, he said.
