Bilal Kanjal and Salman Ashraf
Many of the reports by different commissions formed in the past have yet to be made public including Abbottabad Commission and others await implementation in letter and spirit.
First time in the history of Pakistan a judicial commission was formed to investigate the factors that led to Dhaka Fall in the supervision of Chief Justice Hamood-ur-Rhman on 26 December, 1971, Justice Anwar-ul-Haq was the deputy chairman of this commission and other members of the commission were Justice Tufail Rehman of Sindh High Court, two judges of Balochistan high court and Lt-Gen (retd) Altaf Qadir and a military advisor were appointed and was made public in 2000, after a gap of 29 years.
In 1996, another commission was formed to probe the killing of Murtaza Bhuto in Karachi, elder son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The commission declared the murder a conspiracy but didn’t mention who the conspirators were.
Another investigative commission was formed on the rude behavior of a policeman with ex-chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhary. Rana Bhagwan Das formed this commission led by then Peshawar chief justice Justice Ijaz Afzal. As usual this report also didn’t reveal the name of official who pulled CJ’s hair.
On May 29, 2011 the journalist Saleem Shehzad was killed. The government formed judicial commission on June 21 under the supervision of CJ Saqib Nisar. However, the commission led a gain into a blind alley.
On May 2, 2011 operation Osama Bin Laden appeared and the government formed the investigative commission for this operation. Justice Javaid Iqbal of Supreme Court led the commission. Abbottabad Commission completed the investigation process in almost two years. On January 7, 2013, Justice Javaid Iqbal submitted report to the government. The commission was given a task to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. The history repeated itself and the commission report hasn’t been made public till this date although excerpts of the report were reported by Aljazeera.
On April 10, 2016, a high-level judicial commission was formed to inquire into the attack on Hamid Mir on April 19, 2014, in Karachi. The report stated its inability to find the identity of the culprits or fixing the responsibility on any individual, group or organization, according to the unconfirmed draft available on social media. The government neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of this leaked report.