Look I don't want to argue and if you are Pakistani, certainly you will know a lot more about Pakistan than I will. There are certain types of media hype that one has to discount as you say - but this one clearly smacks of post-fix by your military. You have the newspaper publicly saying 'yes the PM's office denied it but we still standby our report'. Obviously your military is trying to figure out who from that meeting leaked such frank conversation. And the only way they can do that is by making dawn reveal its source. All this Dawn also knows - yet it is saying they stand by their report.
If you still think it is me throwing mud on Pakistan, let me just say what I have already said twice elsewhere in this website: this is a moment of rare pride for Pakistan when its media can stand up like this. That is not throwing mud, that is a compliment