The Abbottabad Commission probing the May 2 incursion into Pakistan by US Special Forces on an alleged hideout of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad has missed its deadline of May 2012 to finalise its report and it appears the report is unlikely to be completed by July due to “unhelpful” attitude by former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, by Navy SEALs of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six. The operation was ordered by US President Barack Obama and was carried out in a Central Intelligence Agency-led operation. The five-member commission, headed by former senior judge of the apex court Javed Iqbal, was reconstituted on June 21, 2011, and despite lapse of over a year, the commission has failed to finalise its report. A spokesperson of the commission told media on May 2 this year that the report would be finalised on May 21 and it would be submitted to Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry within a week after it is finalised. But till date, the commission has failed to do so.
“The report could not be finalised and is unlikely to be finalised by next month as well because Yousaf Raza Gilani did not submit his response to the commission. Though the new prime minister has also been issued a notice, we are yet to receive a response from him,” a source in the commission told Pakistan Today. The source added that the commission wanted to get input from the then chief executive of the country as other stakeholders had given their input about the matter. However, he added, the former PM did not respond. “Other than the prime minister, the commission had also sent its questionnaire to CIA, which has also not responded,” the source added.
Reportedly, the commission had questioned Gilani why he had authorised the then Pakistan Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani through his principal secretary, Nargis Sethi, to issue visas to 4,000 Americans bypassing scrutiny process by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and other related organs of the state.
The questionnaire had suggested that the US spies could not have dared to move freely in Pakistan had PM Gilani acted on the advice of the Pakistan Army and the ISI and refrained from issuing visas to thousands of officials of private US security and intelligence agencies.
The commission has already completed its process and it has inspected the place of the incident while views of experts and statements of various officials involved with the investigation have already been received.The commission has recorded statements of the heads of military and civil intelligence agencies, Director General Military Operations, former ambassador of Pakistan to Washington, present and former foreign ministers and foreign secretaries, and the family members of Osama bin Laden and other people killed in the operation. The commission has also held interactions with some politicians who had provided the commission some useful material.
Here is the report: The commission is getting paid million. They have no interest in ending their job. Gillani, zardari and kiayani got million for keeping quiet and not responding to invasion by foreign forces. It was a small price to pay to be known as incompetent in return for millions of dollars. Army and airforce chief conspire against their own country. They should be tried for treason. Gillani allowed thousands of foreign agents in the country without security check so they can fight Pakistani forces if they resisted the capture/killing of Osama. Coward Pakistan forces were too incompetent and scared to put up any resistence anyway. Political and military leaders failed us. Zardari and Gillani congratulated US for the successful invasion of Pakistan the very next day. Need I say more?
Pakistani nation abounds in idiots like big daddy, small daddy and Daddy who continue to malign their own people and their own institutions both civil and military. Good for us. Need I say more?
Can u please release comments asap. Thank you.
East Pakistan was lost due to NO Hamood Ul Rehman Commission Report. If we want Pakistan to exist & live a respectable life Abbottabad Commission Report must be released immediately. Even if it shows our negligence in any aspect. The picture must be clearly visible before all of us. Otherwise we are giving an open hand to our enemies to make as many false assessments & put as many false allegations on Pakistan as they can. This process may later on make life hard for all the Pakistanis. WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.
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