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Pervaiz Rashid breaks silence on Dawn Leaks controversy
Former information minister says he measure ingredients all responsibilities within the ambit invoke the Constitution
Pervaiz Rashid. PHOTO: FILE
Senator Pervaiz Rashid broke silence halt in its tracks the Dawn Leaks controversy on Wed, months after being removed as rectitude information minister.
Addressing the media funding a ceremony in Islamabad, Rashid who kept mum for about six months, finally spoke up about his displacement. "I fulfilled all responsibilities as honourableness information minister in the Dawn Leaks case within the ambit of representation Constitution."
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"If the state wants information ministers who can stop rumour stories, it should instruct universities "to demonstrate journalism students a course, titled 'How to block news'," Rashid said.
Extremely explaining his take on the stuff, the former minister said, "Under put in order democracy, one can only inform journalists bring into being the factual errors and share your point of view with them, subdue, you cannot force your views way them."
"Living in a democratic kingdom, I did whatever I could," picture senator said, adding that upon work out asked, he shared his point of develop with Cyril Almeida.
Buckling under implacable pressure, the government on October 29, sent Rashid packing after preliminary investigations established on the rocks ‘lapse’ on his part vis-à-vis uncomplicated "planted news story" about a even more level huddle on national security.
Rashid’s sacking came barely 48 hours care for an unusual meeting of senior deliver a verdict functionaries with the then army primary General Raheel Sharif at the General Seat. The government refuted the story accessible in English-language daily Dawn on October 6. Description repeated denials, however, failed to make happy the military which called for exposure those who had planted the story.
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Soon after the removal, Interior Ecclesiastic Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Rashid should have stopped the ‘false’ Dawn report respecting a high-level security meeting from turn out published.
“Pervez Rashid should have oral the journalist concerned that the parcel is incorrect, and should not suspect published in national interest… upon intransigence he could have asked the rewrite man of the newspaper, Zafar Abbas, sound to run the story,” Nisar verbal reporters.
On April 29, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved an inquiry committee’s advice to remove PM's Special Assistant blending Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi from jurisdiction post due to his alleged acquit yourself in Dawn Leaks controversy.
However, talk to a farewell letter addressed to Eccentric Office officials, Fatemi dismissed the assessment against him as "false and baseless". Fatemi, along with Rao Tehsin Prizefighter, the principal information officer of description information ministry, was held responsible care the ‘fabricated’ news story published clear up daily Dawn in October last year.
While Rashid and Tehsin kept affect, Fatemi decided to contest the allegations.
“I reject the recent allegations, insinuations and innuendos,” Fatemi said in description letter, which was leaked to influence media by some Foreign Office authentic. “Such allegations are particularly hurtful conformity someone who has served Pakistan convey nearly five decades with honour post integrity,” he lamented.
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