What are the chances that its recommendations and findings will be made public?
JOHANNESBURG: This is with reference to your report of June 2 titled “Abbottabad commission crashes before taking off”. Even if a commission is formed and it completes its inquiry, what are the chances that its recommendations and findings will be made public? The fact that even the report of the Hamoodur Rehman Commission never saw the light of day is one example. In fact, it was only after an Indian publication published it that one newspaper in Pakistan did the same — but it was never released by the government. One also doesn’t really know what to make of the stand taken by the PML-N. First it issued a threat that a commission should be formed, and when it was, it rejected it instead of lending it support.
Dr Saleem Siddiqi
Published in The Express Tribune, June 3rd, 2011.
