Pervez Rashid says tho people responsible would be held accountable. PHOTO: FILE
Talking to the media, the information minister said they will start by ascertaining if the leaked report is factual to begin with.
The people responsible for the leakage will be held accountable, he said.
On Monday, Al Jazeera had released a leaked report by the Pakistan commission formed to probe the Osama bin Laden raid, carried out by US.
The independent commission’s report, which had been formally handed over to the government earlier in the year, had not been released to the public.
It had revealed a scathing assessment of the Pakistani government and the security structures.
The report was buried by the government and never made public, until Al Jazeera got hold of it and released it online.
Soon after the report's online release, there were reports that it was actively being blocked.
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I didn't thing pak gvt want share this report so they use this way to pressurize pak army and getting their interests this report is leaked by the will of Govt. of pak
@Ahsan: "Please set up a commission!!" . Please set up a commission, then bury their findings. If some one else digs it up and publishes it. Then it is time to set up another commission, ad infinitum......
I wonder the leaked report was delivered to AJ by same person/group who used to deliver recorded videos from OBL.
Instead of releasing the report for public, continue hiding it. However in today's day and age it is not possible. All we do is spend too much money to investigate the surrender in E. Pakistan, presence of OBL in army base and almost a decade in Pakistan, failure to protect the borders and no report ever sees the light of the day.
What was the purpose of that comission and for whose consumption this report was prepared.People have the right to know everything. Stop fooling people and considering the nation as herd of animals.Both civilian and military leadership has no respect for the nation.
Check the bank balances and travel itinerary of those people who were connected to the commission and were preparing the report. It seems that corruption has seeped into every institution of Pakistan.
This event reminds what is the definition of DRAMA.
Does not matter whether this kind of strange report published or not. People won't expect any more report like this because report is not symmetric in reality/context/event since its well scripted report.
where is page-197? apparently the photocopy guy missed it, so he/she must not be payed for full 337 pages ;)
Just denied it like allways just tell them its a lie hahahha
This so-called leak is very amusing. It is very obvious that the Establishment chose to 'leak' this cooked-up report. Usually, when the Deep State resorts to such 'leaks', it is an attempt to preempt something that is soon to hit the media news and to divert the attention of Pakistanis and the world from a news that is going to be far worse- as they say the sh*t is soon to hit the fan. Also, the timing of the 'leak' coinciding with Sharif's China visit can't be coincidental. .
Why the attempt for diversion, one might ask. The logical conclusion is that China must have asked Sharif about why bin Laden was comfortably ensconced in Abbottabad and Pakistan for so long. Remember, Sharif asked for nuclear plants and technology from the Chinese and the Chinese must have expressed their concern about terrorists such as Osama living in Pakistan. The deliberate "leak" by the establishment is thus designed to totally absolve the deep state actors from the fact that they were deeply involved in protecting bin Laden. Now, Sharif can tell the Chinese and the world that the Pakistani Establishment had no knowledge of Osama's presence in Pakistan and thus innocent.
Please set up a commission!!
Please set up A commission!
People must now be careful that the ”government" does not declare the published copy a fake to protect all the sacred cows named in this report! I have read part of the report on Al Jazeera and am impressed by the CANDOR and GREAT DETAIL the authors of the report have expressed, and I believe that the new government should now release the report to show the Pakistani public (and the world) that they are serious about making Pakistan a better place for all!
What is there to investigate ? Why did this report not see the light of day for long ? Where is this Democracy and so called Governance, Transparency etc...... ???? All the above big words are not there for simply convenience, they have to be abided and adhered to in real democracies ! There are over total of 337 pages and some of them still have been removed, as it would have upset some serious people in the GHQ ! That is the real story, here ! It shows as to the complete and utter failure of the State's institutions and even being caught out, still the unwillingness to acknowledge the facts ! This is not only failed state, but one that simply can not see as to what actually happens around it either, by the very people in charge of it !
Why? The public pay for all this and they have a right to know what went wrong and have a right to see the responsible being punished. Pervez Rasheed is trying to protect the guilty.
Apparently the report was sold to media by someone from Prime Minister’s secretariat