Being PAF’s ex-official one is not ready to digest that foreign aircraft’s intrusion, that too deep down in the country, and jamming of radar or communication systems for such a long time is technically possible. The flight from Bagram Airbase to Abbottabad takes 1:10 hours and equally 1:10 hours back, adding to the 40-minute operation near Pakistan Military Academy and suppose 10/10 minutes prior and post jamming, it is more than 3:40 hours of total blackout of communication.
The air route from Jalalabad to Abbottabad lies on the Peshawar, Mardan-Risalpur, Ghazi Barotha line where the Peshawar International Airport’s radar system, along with the PAF’s multiple systems, and other systems interlinked to support each other’s, simultaneously work and indicate within seconds if any kind of failure, halt or fault occurs.
The ever alert technicians watching round the clock routinely report on hotlines and, in case of failures, through cables, to the senior authorities within no time. That the helicopters used in the operation have the stealth aircraft’s technology, it is not even then possible.
Keeping aside the notion that someone had from inside helped the Americans, this is a matter of satisfaction that if technically it is not possible, then it means the question of capability and capacity of our security apparatus cannot be raised.
One finds a reason behind not publicly owning the killing of Osama, but the media must be aware of the fact that the vulnerabilities of the country should not be highlighted in such a manner that it helps one way or the other the enemy media, that has opened all its guns to malign Pakistan, its government and its security agencies.
ESCHMALL SARDAR
Peshawar
