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Islamabad : Pakistan’s prime minister Tuesday ordered an independent commission to investigate the Abbottabad operation in which elite US forces killed Osama bin Laden on 2 May 2011.
A Statement was issued by Prime Minister's Office stated that, “Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has constituted a commission to investigate the Abbotabad incident”
Pakistan’s parliament earlier this month urged the government to appoint an independent group to probe the raid that killed bin Laden, aimed at ensuring that such an incident in not repeated.
Lawmakers also threatened to withdraw logistical cooperation for US troops based in Afghanistan and condemned CIA-operated drone strikes in the wake of the helicopter-borne assault by US Navy SEALs that led to bin Laden’s death.
A five member commission will be headed by Justice Javed Iqbal, a senior judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
