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Dawn Leaks: Government’s next cover-up strategy?
Global Village Space |
Ikram Sehgal |
Facing the storm unleashed by the leaking of the Cyril Almeida story, “Act Against Militants or Face International Isolation, Civilians Tell Military,” the Nawaz Sharif government labeled it as being “fabricated and planted”. The PM Office’s initial statement about DawnLeaks that “evidence available so far points to a lapse on part of the Information Minister, who has been directed to step down from office to enable holding of an independent and detailed inquiry” was dismissed vehemently as “fiction”. Sacrificial lamb Pervaiz Rasheed has now come out of enforced hibernation to confirm this.
Headed by retired judge Aamer Raza Khan, a seven-member Committee was supposed to submit their findings within 30 days, what should have taken not more than 72 hours, has taken six months. This cemented the public perception of an attempted “cover-up” to absolve “someone” really close to the PM. As disclosed, at least up till now, the report submitted to the PM on May 23 by Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan does not indict those universally believed to have done the dirty work fabricating the false story and then leaking it.
Read more: Dawn Leaks notification: Is the PM side-stepping from the real case?
Silence is deafening
The persistent attempt at cover-up by the govt reinforces the public perception of someone important responsible for the treasonable act being protected.
A notification surfaced from the PM’s Office “de-notifying” Tariq Fatemi, Special Assistant to the PM for Foreign Affairs (SAPM). Received with disbelief, the matter becoming even less credible because the de-notifying “notification” was issued by someone suspected of being in the Dawn Leaks chain himself, the PM’s Principal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad. PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira echoed the mass public perception about the government “protecting someone” and that no sane individual would believe these “findings”.
Maryam Nawaz’s Trump-like tweets notwithstanding, the government seems to have started faltering finding scapegoats in continuing to filibuster punishing the real culprits. Tariq Fatemi refused to fall on his sword. Vehemently rejecting the allegations in a farewell missive to his colleagues in the Foreign Office on leaving his post, the former SAPM followed the Sufi saying, “read between the lines, it tires the eyes less”.
He pointedly failed to even once make any mention whatsoever about his beloved mentor whom he slavishly served day and night for years. This profound silence about Mian Nawaz Sharif was deafening! This reinforced the PTI leaders querying whether the PM, his daughter Maryam and Fawad were interrogated. The persistent attempt at a cover-up by the govt reinforces the public perception of someone important responsible for the treasonable act being protected.
Read more: Tariq Fatemi Rejects Inquiry Committee’s Allegation; Implications?
Strained civil-military relations
The gentlemanly Raheel Shareef balked in the face of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s crocodile tears and unfairly left the mess for Qamar Jawed Bajwa to clean up. The delay in close will damage civil-military relations.
Read full article:
Dawn Leaks: Government’s next cover-up strategy?
Global Village Space |
Ikram Sehgal |
Facing the storm unleashed by the leaking of the Cyril Almeida story, “Act Against Militants or Face International Isolation, Civilians Tell Military,” the Nawaz Sharif government labeled it as being “fabricated and planted”. The PM Office’s initial statement about DawnLeaks that “evidence available so far points to a lapse on part of the Information Minister, who has been directed to step down from office to enable holding of an independent and detailed inquiry” was dismissed vehemently as “fiction”. Sacrificial lamb Pervaiz Rasheed has now come out of enforced hibernation to confirm this.
Headed by retired judge Aamer Raza Khan, a seven-member Committee was supposed to submit their findings within 30 days, what should have taken not more than 72 hours, has taken six months. This cemented the public perception of an attempted “cover-up” to absolve “someone” really close to the PM. As disclosed, at least up till now, the report submitted to the PM on May 23 by Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan does not indict those universally believed to have done the dirty work fabricating the false story and then leaking it.
Read more: Dawn Leaks notification: Is the PM side-stepping from the real case?
Silence is deafening
The persistent attempt at cover-up by the govt reinforces the public perception of someone important responsible for the treasonable act being protected.
A notification surfaced from the PM’s Office “de-notifying” Tariq Fatemi, Special Assistant to the PM for Foreign Affairs (SAPM). Received with disbelief, the matter becoming even less credible because the de-notifying “notification” was issued by someone suspected of being in the Dawn Leaks chain himself, the PM’s Principal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad. PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira echoed the mass public perception about the government “protecting someone” and that no sane individual would believe these “findings”.
Maryam Nawaz’s Trump-like tweets notwithstanding, the government seems to have started faltering finding scapegoats in continuing to filibuster punishing the real culprits. Tariq Fatemi refused to fall on his sword. Vehemently rejecting the allegations in a farewell missive to his colleagues in the Foreign Office on leaving his post, the former SAPM followed the Sufi saying, “read between the lines, it tires the eyes less”.
He pointedly failed to even once make any mention whatsoever about his beloved mentor whom he slavishly served day and night for years. This profound silence about Mian Nawaz Sharif was deafening! This reinforced the PTI leaders querying whether the PM, his daughter Maryam and Fawad were interrogated. The persistent attempt at a cover-up by the govt reinforces the public perception of someone important responsible for the treasonable act being protected.
Read more: Tariq Fatemi Rejects Inquiry Committee’s Allegation; Implications?
Strained civil-military relations
The gentlemanly Raheel Shareef balked in the face of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s crocodile tears and unfairly left the mess for Qamar Jawed Bajwa to clean up. The delay in close will damage civil-military relations.
Read full article:
Dawn Leaks: Government’s next cover-up strategy?
