Pakistan

Abbottabad probe: Independent commission only to fulfil formalities?

Gilani told PML-N that all coalition partners, civil, military authorities were inclined towards a military inquiry.

Abdul Manan May 21, 2011

LAHORE:

The PPP-led coalition government has indicated to the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) that an independent commission to investigate the May 2 Abbottabad fiasco will be formed just to fulfil formalities, well-placed sources in PML-N told The Express Tribune.

The independent commission was promised in a parliamentary resolution following a special in-camera joint session of Parliament on May 13.

However, sources said that, before his departure to China, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had conveyed to PML-N senior leaders that all the coalition partners, and the civil and military authorities were inclined towards giving more weight to the military inquiry.

The government has asked PML-N to not push for an all-powerful independent commission as even the military establishment has conveyed its reservations in this regard.

The PPP-led coalition government had also expressed its reservations on the names suggested by the PML-N for the commission.

Senator Ishaq Dar and leader of opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will meet PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif today at Raiwind where a draft of the terms and conditions of the independent commission would be devised. They said that after the approval of the party chief, the draft will be handed over to Gilani.

After receiving message from the government on the formation of a ‘poor’ independent commission, Sharif has decided to launch a mass movement against the PPP-led coalition government and has started to address public gatherings in this regard.

They said at the same time the PML-N will also try to force the federal government to implement the terms and conditions of an independent commission in the house.

PML-N has chalked out its future course of action in next three months, which include holding public gatherings in all major cities of the country, according to the sources.

They also added that by using the ‘independent commission card’, the PML-N would malign the government and mobilise the public. They said that Nawaz’s public addresses were also a step towards party reorganisation in the country. They said that in the next three months PML-N would arrange marches against the federal government.

Meanwhile, Nawaz in a public address in Gujrat on Friday said that PML-N would hold talks with Gilani regarding the terms and conditions of an independent commission after his arrival from China. He added that if the federal government showed reluctance to implement or constitute an effective independent commission, he would launch a massive movement against the government.

Nawaz also indirectly criticised the political ethics of the PML-Q leadership. He said that politics should be based on principles not on personal interests. He added that if this rule was adopted in the realm of Pakistani politics, no one would violate the country’s sovereignty.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 21^st, 2011.

COMMENTS (14)

Mirza | 12 years ago | Reply @Azeem Anwer: If there is only one Islam then why are so many Imams and their fiqah followers? These fiqahs and Hadiths were concocted hundreds of years after the prophets. We are full of BS and contradictions. We do everything to suppress the rights of the poor, women and children. What Islam you talk about? We are taught that the first soorat in Quran was Iqra, and the last one was during the Khutba Hajjat ulwida (Al uma akmalto......) and Islam was completed after that. We are also told day and night that Quran is the word of Allah and it is as is and nothing is changed. When you open the Quran, you do not see Iqra as the first and the last not as the last. Who "improved" Allah's sequence? When the beginning and the end is changes what else is changed and why and by whom? In fact by changing the sequence, they made it difficult to study it. There is no other book which is read from the end first! What was the harm in leaving Allah's sequence? Stop using the religion and first reform it as Allah, not mullah meant it.

Abdul Rehman | 12 years ago | Reply It looks like our Generals are trying to hide their deal with Saudi Arabia for protecting Bin Laden. We can't trust Nawaz either who is burdned with a load of Saudi hospitality while in exile and have links with terrorists organizations.

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Azeem Anwer | 12 years ago | Reply @saima babar: You probably understood my point of view. The fact is that if you believe you have a right to walk around without hijab then the true believers also have an equal right to practice hijab if they so choose. Secondly there are no different brands of Islam. The Islam is only one which our prophet (PBUH) taught us and practiced by his companions.

kulamarva balakrishna | 12 years ago | Reply Vienna,21-05-2011 Yes sir, what can say it is up to you to decide how to repair your leaking and drowning ship. -Kulamarva Balakrishna

saima babar | 12 years ago | Reply @Azeem Anwer: it's people like you who've made life hell for women in our country.Religious fanatics who try to impose their cavemen mentality on the rest of the normal people.I have a right not walk around in a tent if i don't want to. sadly,the religious fanatics in our country think that if anyone talks rationally & wants religion not to interfere in the lives of the citizens of the state,then in the myopic view of the fanatics the rational people become agents of the western countries.The religious barbarians think that everyone born a muslim should think like the fundoos do. it's time these people wiped off the cobwebs in their brains & reconciled themselves to the existence of athiests,agnostics & ex-muslims in our country.Yes,may sanity guide you to the path away from suicide bombings,beheadings & stoning to death of women.

Azeem Anwer | 12 years ago | Reply @afzal khan: .....and worst of all this, who is funding the channels that are erasing the religious teaching from the nation in general and people like you in particular. Don't you know that hijab and abaya is compulsory for Muslim ladies? One who criticizes these basic Islamic teachings is definitely being funded by western money and fed by western culture. May God bless you and guide you to the right path. The path of the prophet and his companions. Ameen.

naeem khan | 12 years ago | Reply @naeem khan: Sorry, my comment was irrelevant. I was commenting on Kharotabad incident.

naeem khan | 12 years ago | Reply Ever since I have watched that woman on TV who was raising her hand for mercy,I am in a state of shock.If the responsibles of this brutal act are not brought to justice,we must expect a new wave of violence.

saleem khan | 12 years ago | Reply We know it already sir

Shahbaz Ali | 12 years ago | Reply Will Zardari-Galani hold inquiry against their government crimes of negligence, omission or commission? They did not let any action take place when Zulfikar Mirza showed to world the proofs of MQM target killings and bathakhori of hundreds of billions.What have been doing in SCP court proceeding by obstructing fair inquiries etc.Do you expect this coalition tola of liars and blackmailers,PPP,MQM,ANP,MLQ proceed against themselves.MQM made a biggest eyewash after joining government; holds a bogus referendum while part of PPPZ government in corruption, drones attacks for three years and for seven years with Musharraf and yet feign innocent. No greater fraud and lie could be than them on this on this earth. Get rid of coalition mafia to get rid of national problems and throw shoes on MNS for sleeping all the while and now speaking when it is too late.

afzal khan | 12 years ago | Reply The probe really needed is who is funding the madrassas & building of mosques where religious bigotry & intolerance is preached? who's funding the various mazhabi organisations that are brainwashing our people into becoming savages & cavemen. who's funding the lady who conducts the seminars in five star hotels & brainwashes young girls into feeling ashamed of themselves & to hide their sinful bodies behind hijabs & abayas? where is this woman getting the money to destroy another generation of our women? who's funding the 24 hours fundoo channels which spew the most vile form of misogyny & religious bigotry? why have so many of these channels been allowed to sprout up like weeds as these channels are creating another generation of brainwashed religious terrorists.

Ahmer Ali | 12 years ago | Reply Assalam-o-Allaikum Warahmatullah.Not only Abbotabad's operation's incident but the any most important incidents which have been occurred in the past and all the inquiry commissions which have been conducted for telling the realities and truths to the nation were only formalities to deceive and fool the nation and conduct an inquiry commission in Pakistan against any incident means to bury the realities.

Mirza | 12 years ago | Reply Why would military not want an independent commission? What are they afraid of or trying to hide? A sub-ordinate of Kayan or Pasha cannot have an independent inquiry against his superiors. I do not like to say it but whatever his motives are Nawaz Sharif is right in his demand for transparency in OBL living in a custom home at a military garrison.

TightDhoti | 12 years ago | Reply So whose surprised? With our notorious short memories, we would have forgotten this and like all the previous inquiries nothing will happen.

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