Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday announced that it supports the position of Pakistan Army on Dawn Leaks probe notification. After the government removed Tariq Fatemi from his post of Special Assistant to PM Nawaz on Foreign Affairs, army rejected the notification terming it incomplete.
Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah told that the matter of sensitive report was brutally diminished by removing Tariq Fatemi from his post. He said that army's decision given in Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) notification was right. He stated, "Prime Minister had become a threat to national integrity".
"There's no importance of national security according to PML-N. National institutes are being made controversial for self-interests," PPP leader Maula Baksh Chandio said while claiming that Nawaz Sharif's politics revolved around personal interests. PPP leaders demanded immediate issuance of Dawn Leaks report as well as resignation from Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Saturday demanded the government make public the complete inquiry report regarding the Dawn Leaks. In a tweet, the cricketer-turned-politician claimed that the Dawn Leaks scandal was a deliberate attempt by the government to malign Pakistan Army. He demanded the government immediately make public the complete inquiry report which had given its recommendation to the government regarding the Dawn Leaks scandal.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi, former Information Minister Pervez Rashid and Principal Information Officer Rao Tehseen were held responsible by the Dawn leaks inquiry report for the controversy. Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacked Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi and has ordered the authorities to take action against Principal Information Officer at Press Information Department Rao Tehseen over the Dawn Leaks issue.
The prime minister directed the authorities to send the issue regarding Assistant Editor of Dawn newspaper Cyril Almeida and Editor Zaffar Abbas to All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS). It is being stated that the issue is being sent to APNS to ensure a code of conduct is made to avoid any such incidents in the future. Pervez Rashid, former information minister, is not mentioned in the decision taken by the committee probing the issue.
The report has also recommended that action be taken against the three for the Dawn leaks conundrum. The report was presented after a detailed investigation was conducted into the matter. The committee claimed that mobile data from Tariq Fatemi, Pervez Rashid and Rao Tehseen's phones were also obtained to aid in the investigation.
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