ISLAMABAD: The Lal Masjid Shuhda Foundation on Thursday moved a petition in the Supreme Court requesting it to direct the federal government to make the Dawn Leaks report public.
The petition also prayed the top court to bring the persons involved in the controversy to task in accordance with the law.
“The matter is not personal between chief of army staff and the prime minister, but is of national importance. No one may wind it up personally through compromise and keep the people of Pakistan in dark,” the petition stated.
“Since under Article 19-A of the constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, every citizen has the right to have access to information in all matters of public importance subject to regulation and reasonable restrictions imposed by the law, the respondent has no option except to make the report of the commission public,” the petition contended.
The petition filed by President of Lal Masjid Shuhda Foundation Advocate M Tariq Asad under Article 184 (3) of the constitution has made Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Ministry of Information, Ministry of Interior and Cyril Almeida, staff reporter of Daily Dawn, as respondents.
“The petitioner and all the citizens of Pakistan are not satisfied with the in-house compromise between the COAS and the PM; they are inquisitive to know as to what was the report of the committee/commission constituted to place the responsibility on the persons who betrayed the confidence by leaking the contents of the confidential meeting on national security,” the petition contended.
It is also not being appreciated that PM’s daughter is tweeting on important and sensitive matters notwithstanding she is not holding any public office, the petition maintained.
It further stated that the matter pertained to important security meeting leading to a breach of national security adding that the act of leaking the contents of the meeting on national security was violation of Official Secrets Act, 1923, whereby the persons responsible of wrongful communication of information were thus subject to Army Act 1952 and were liable to be tried under army act by the army.
