ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervez Rashid on Saturday night categorically denied media reports that Abbottabad 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 organisation Al-Jazeera, had blamed all government and military institutions of collective failure for their inability to track down Osama Bin Laden 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 Pakistani 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, 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.