Justice Javed ready to head Abbottabad Commission

ISLAMABAD: Justice Javed Iqbal, the senior most Judge of the Supreme Court, 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 in 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.