Justice Javed ready to head Abbottabad commission

ISLAMABAD Supreme Courts senior-most judge Justice Javed Iqbal said on Friday that he had received the notification regarding setting up a commission to probe the Abbottabad incident and he would work as its head. Talking to mediamen at the Supreme Court building before Friday prayers, he said I have received the notification and now we are to work. The Prime Minister had announced constitution of a five-member Commission headed by Justice Javed Iqbal and including Fakharuddin G Ebrahim, prominent jurist, Lt-Gen (retd) Nadeem Ahmed, Abbas Khan, a former inspector-general of police, and Ashraf Jahangir Qazi, a former ambassador. Fakharuddin G Ebrahim, however, few days back had expressed his inability to work as a member. The Commission is supposed to investigate the May 2 US operation in Abbottabad in which Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed. It has been constituted on the basis of a joint resolution adopted by the Parliament on May 14.

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