Tariq Fatemi, Pakistan PM’s Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs, could be removed from his position after an inquiry found him guilty of “leaking” to a prominent newspaper vital information from a high-level National Security meet, a media report said on Thursday.
In October last year, a columnist for Dawn newspaper wrote a front-page story about a rift between Pakistan’s civilian and military leaderships over militant groups that operate from Pakistan but engage in proxy war against India and Afghanistan. The government had set up the inquiry committee last year to probe the controversy surrounding a controversial report by Dawn newspaper about a key meeting on national security. According to the inquiry committee report, it is Fatemi who was primarily responsible for leaking report of the key meeting to the newspaper without due permission.