Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s sacked aide Tariq Fatemi on Tuesday rejected the allegations against him after a probe into a leak of sensitive information to a newspaper that had angered the powerful Army.
In a farewell letter to his colleagues, which was discreetly leaked to media, Fatemi, 72, said, “I reject recent allegations, insinuations and innuendos. Such suggestions are particularly hurtful to someone who has served Pakistan for nearly five decades with honour and dignity.”
Fatemi’s response comes as Prime Minister Sharif on Saturday sacked him from the post of special foreign affairs assistant following the findings of a committee, which probed a story on a rift between the army and the government.
Sharif approved the committee’s recommendation to remove Fatemi after he was found guilty of “leaking” information to the media about a high-level security meet.