[Dawn] Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervez Rashid on Saturday night categorically denied media reports that Abbottabad... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
Commission's report had gone missing from the prime minister's office.
The original report is in safe possession of the government and no unauthorised person can have access to the document, he told APP.
"The report has neither disappeared nor got leaked from PM office," the minister clarified. He said media reports and comments are based on unauthentic, incomplete and distorted version of the report.
The leaked version of report, uploaded by the Qatar-based media organization Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
, had blamed all government and military institutions of collective failure for their inability to track down the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as
Mister Bones...
while he was living in the country, and for not being able to detect or prevent the unauthorised operation against the Al Qaeda chief by the US Navy SEAL's deep inside the Pak territory.
Replying to a question on the possibility of official release of the report, the minister said former prime minister had set up a committee on Feb 1, headed by the then minister for law with foreign and defence ministers as members to decide about complete or partial release of the report.
The committee was also mandated to decide whether the report should be made public at all. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the government's tenure concluded on March 16 and the findings of the committee could not be finalised by that time.
Rashid said the present government is looking into the matter and shall make a decision about release of the report in the national interest.
He urged the media not to jump to conclusions and wait for release of the authentic version of the report to make any analysis or judgment.