Islamabad: Pakistan will appoint a new commission to ascertain the facts about Osama bin Laden's presence in the country and to probe the unilateral US raid that killed the al Qaeda chief.
Law Minister Maula Bakhsh Chandio on Saturday said a new commission will soon be set to start the investigation. "Consultations are under way for the new panel," he told Dawn News channel.
A previous panel appointed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in late May faced controversy even before it could begin its work, with the head of the commission and a member dropping out on the grounds that the government had not conducted consultations before naming them.
Gilani had formed a five-member commission to be headed by Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal, who said the Chief Justice was not consulted before he was named the chief of the panel.
Former Supreme Court judge Fakhruddin G Ibrahim, who was made a member of the Commission, too refused to be part of the panel.
Legal experts insisted that a judge cannot be made the head of an investigation panel unless permission is sought from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Bar Association chairperson Asma Jehangir had raised objections regarding the Commission and said the Chief Justice should have been informed prior to Iqbal's nomination as the head of the body.
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