ISLAMABAD: After the main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has also come out with the demand that the government present the report of an inquiry committee on a Dawn news report before parliament.

The PTI submitted a resolution to the National Assembly Secretariat on Tuesday, asking the government to lay the report before parliament. It was submitted by Murad Saeed, a PTI MNA from Swat.

On Monday, PPP`s Farhatullah Babar had submitted a motion to the Senate, seeking a debate on the issue.

Through the resolution, the PTI lawmaker asked the Ministry of Interior to present `complete report compiled and submitted by the investigation commission on the famous news leak scandal before the house without any further delay`.

Later in a statement, Mr Saeed said it was an opportunity for the government to prove through its actions that it considered parliament as sovereign. He alleged that the prime minister had `violated the sanctity of parliament by telling lies on the floor of the house` while defending himself in the Panama leaks scam.

Moreover, he said, actions and behavior of the government ministers and members had tarnished the image of parliament.

Earlier, the PPP had urged the government to make public the report of the committee set up to hold an inquiry into a story about a security meeting published in Dawn in October last year and hold a parliamentary debate on it in order to allay `doubts and misgivings`.

PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar had said the `unceremonious sack-ing` of Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi and Principal Information Officer Rao Tehsin Ali and the `unprecedented advice` to the All Pakistan Newspapers Society to proceed against the editor and the reporter had made it `absolutely necessary` that the report be immediately made public.

Mr Babar had also stated that the `highly unprecedented public rejection` by the military authorities through the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of the order issued by the PM Office lent a new dimension to the incident that would give rise to some serious questions which would refuse to die down.

`The botching up of the incident is a measure of the incompetence of the government and insistence to keep the inquiry report under wraps will only complicate the matter further,` he said, recalling the statement of the interior minister that the report would be made public.

The government has been facing criticism from the opposition and other quarters following the prime minister`s order removing Tariq Fatemi and Rao Tehsin from their posts under the Efficiency and Discipline Rules 1973 on the charges based on the hndings in the report.

On Monday, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah disclosed that the government had decided to make public, through a notification to be issued by the interior ministry this week, the `operative part` of the recommendations of the inquiry committee.

He said the notification would put to rest all speculations about a civil-military spat in the wake of the ISPR Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor`s tweet rejecting the government`s notification on the matter.