ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday moved an adjournment motion in the National Assembly over the Dawn Leaks issue.
The motion came a day after Pakistan Army withdrew its tweet that rejected the notification issued by the Prime Minister’s Office with regards to the Dawn Leaks inquiry report.
“On behalf of PTI parliamentary party, we the undersigned move an adjournment motion requiring suspension of normal agenda to discuss a matter of critical national importance: the Dawn Leaks issue which was referred to, as a national security breach by the interior minister and the corps commanders meeting — immediately after it came to light,” said the motion moved by PTI MNAs Asad Umar, Shafqat Mahmood and Munazza Hasan.
“The inquiry report on the issue be laid before Parliament so the issue can be discussed thoroughly and the government provide answers to serious questions raised not only by the incident itself but also by the non-transparent manner in which the issue was claimed to have been ‘resolved’,” the motion further said.
On Wednesday, PTI chairman Imran Khan said that the nation was being “kept in the dark” and that he report should be made public. In a series of tweets in reaction to the statements over the issue he said that the nation needs to know what was ‘settled’.
The English-language daily, Dawn, had published a story on October 6 in which journalist Cyril Almeida had written about an alleged civil-military rift during the National Security Committee (NSC) meeting over the issue of tackling jihadi outfits. From the military side, DG, ISI attended the meeting where other participants were civilian government officials, including Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif.
The story stirred a major controversy last year, while the federal government had repeatedly denied it as ‘fabricated and planted’, and the army had called it a breach of trust on national security.
It resulted in Almeida coming under fire from the military and government and being temporarily placed on the Exit Control List.
