Abbottabad commission: Former foreign minister, secretaries interviewed

Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who quit over Davis fiasco, among those quizzed.

ISLAMABAD: The commission investigating the May 2 Abbottabad raid interviewed former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and three former foreign secretaries on Wednesday.

Headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Javed Iqbal, the commission held an interactive session with Qureshi who quit from his post, party and the National Assembly seat after reported differences with the Pakistan Peoples Party leadership over the Raymond Davis case.

Davis, a covert CIA operative, was arrested for killing two Pakistani citizens but was later released after paying blood money.

Little details emerged from the commission meeting that was held behind closed doors.

According to an official press statement, the commission also interviewed former foreign secretaries Inam ul Haq, Riaz Khokhar and Riaz M Khan, journalist and former envoy Dr Maleeha Lodhi, former bureaucrat Roedad Khan and defence analyst Lt Gen (retd) Talat Masood.

The commission has also summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to the UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan, by the end of this month. No specific date has been given for his interview though.

According to an official, the commission will meet again some time next week, but a schedule has not been announced yet.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2011.