Hussain Haqqani summoned in Abottabad probe

Things keep getting worse for Hussain Haqqani. The former Ambassador has been summoned by the judicial commission set up for inquiry of the May 2 incident in which Osama Bin Laden was supposedly killed in a
raid by USA special forces inside Pakistan. The raid near the Garrison city of Abottabad was a clear violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and recent reports suggest that Haqqani could have been in the know beforehand.

Haqqani was Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States when the US Navy SEALs stormed into Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad and killed the former al Qaeda chief. The episode was termed a unilateral
operation on Pakistani soil which heightened tensions between Islamabad and Washington.

Haqqani, who recently resigned from his post as ambassador to the US in the wake of the Memogate controversy, will give a presentation to the commission regarding the situation that ensued in Washington after
the raid.

The commission will be headed by Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal. The inquiry commission will go through laws, which Washington and Islamabad have quoted, to justify or oppose the May 2 incursion. The commission
will also interview Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Khawaja Muhammad Asif and President National Defence University, Islamabad Lieutenant General Agha Muhammad Umer Farooq the same day.

The commission is preparing its report on the May 2 incident. Other members of the commission, former Inspector General Police Abbas Khan, former diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi and Lt General (retd) Nadeem Ahmed
will also attend the meeting which will be held at the Cabinet Division.

Earlier, the commission recorded the statements of the military lands director and the director of Save the Children foundation.

Former director general Intelligence Bureau, chairman National Database and Registration Authority, advocate Ahmer Bilal Soofi and an explosives expert also gave a presentation to the members of the commission.

If he is somehow implicated in the raid it could spell further trouble for Haqqani, who is already facing a probe over the memogate scandal. The former Ambassador has pleaded his innocence but has been told
not to leave the country until after the inquiry is complete.

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