The Pakistan Army has rejected the notification on Dawn Leaks issued by the Prime Minister Secretariat on Saturday.
The DG Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a Twitter message termed the notification incomplete and not in line with the recommendations by the inquiry board.
DG ISPR Major-General Asif Ghafoor in a tweet came shortly after the prime minister’s office announced that PM Nawaz Sharif had approved the recommendations of the Dawn Leak inquiry committee.
Notification on Dawn Leak is incomplete and not in line with recommendations by the Inquiry Board. Notification is rejected.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) April 29, 2017
The order from the PM Office announced that it was withdrawing the portfolio of Foreign Affairs from Prime Minister Sharif’s Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi.
It added that Rao Tehsin Ali, the principal information officer at the Information Ministry, will be proceeded against under the E&D rules 1973 on the charges based on the report findings.
The PM’s order added that the role of the editor of Dawn Newspaper, Zaffar Abbas, and reporter Cyril Almeida would be referred to the All Pakistan Newspaper Association (APNS) for necessary disciplinary action to be taken against them.
