Jonaid Iqbal
A stir was created in Pakistan on Monday after the Arabian TV Al-Jazeera released a leaked report of the judicial enquiry commission on Abbottabad. The leaked report in many ways makes scathing assessment on the government and charging it with failure in ensuring inland security within the country. The [Abbottabad] Commission was formed by Supreme Court of Pakistan on 21 June, 2011on a request made by the Central Government with senior Justice Mr. Javaid Iqbal in the chair.
The Commission’s mandate was to study and furnish report on circumstantial events “leading up to the United States to take unilateral military action to slay Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin at Abbottabad on 2 May 2011 “and also to ascertain and investigate ‘all facts as how Osama came to live in Pakistan’ until he was discovered and killed in a covert U.S. military operation’. The US attack at Osama’s temporary residence at Abbottabad has been equivocally described by all shades of public opinions, as war on Pakistan.
After examining 300 witnesses and reviewing 3000 documents in two years, the Commission submitted its findings on all relevant facts to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf early this year.
Although the Commission had recommended to the government to release the report, yet it was not made public.
But some how unexplained the report landed this week at Al Jazeera news network and is also available on its website.
The Pakistani Media is quite peeved about this denial of access in this matter because quite lightly it may claim a right to be the first to receive all official releases.
It seems, top brass of the military were probably also upset on this matter, when on Tuesday the top military commanders discussed the implications of the leaked report along with ‘prevalent internal and external security matters’. However, the commanders stopped short of making a comment until the report was officially released at home.
The Abottabad Commission had recommended restricting and overhauling civil and military agencies under a parliamentary oversight committee, as well as to formulate a well defined national security policy to counter ‘effective anti-terrorism’ objectives. Such a policy might be on the anvil during the “collective incompetence and negligence” by the intelligence agencies was the main reason why the al Qaeda chief remained undetected for so long.
“Thankfully for us, this proves Pakistani army not housing the terrorist,” stated the report.
Source: Weekly Holiday
