ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has constituted a special high
level investigation committee to probe intervention in Pakistan
airspace by US helicopters on the night between 1 and 2 May, when US
forces conducted Abbottabad’s operation in which Al-Qaida chief Osama
Bin Ladin was killed. Airspace.
According to BBC the committee
will probe on the military operation and killing of Bin Ladin by US
forces. It is the first committee which is formed to investigate the
controversial incident challenging the sovereignty of Pakistan. The
team would also see that how Pakistani forces remained ignorant about
the presence of foreign choppers in Pakistan’s territory.
Special
committee, under the headship of an officer of Group Captain level has
started its working by checking the record of radar thoroughly and
taking interviews with the officials who were on duty at the very
night.
The sources said that the more such committees would be
formed in the days to come in defence organizations and secret agencies
to unveil the facts of the Abbottabad operation, which are becoming the
reasons of embarrassment for the country internationally.
The
initial investigations revealed that the PAF radars installed at
Peshawar and Rislapur were functioning and a movement of some half
dozen planes was traced out near Jalalabad boundary at 11:00 pm in the
night. One of these airplanes was identified as US Radar laden AWACS
and remaining five were recognized as F-8 Jet Fights of US. These
planes flew near Pakistani border for quite lone time but they did not
cross into the airspace bounderss of Pakistan.
The committee
would look into the matter that if radar system tracked down these
flights outside Pakistan’s limit but could not detect the US
helicopters which entered into Pakistan and remained for hours there.
The officers of PAF would also examine the aspect whether the planes
that were traced by the radars were made flights to divert the
attention of Pakistani forces. Online
