Islamabad: The Abbottabad Commission has summoned Wajid Shamsul Hassan, Pakistan High Commissioner to UK.
According to sources the commission probing US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2 this year, decided to summon Hassan during a meeting presided over by its chairman justice retired Javed Iqbal.
The sources said that Hassan has been directed to appear before the commission during last week of December.
The commission held consultations with Wasim Sajjad, senior lawyer SM Zafar and Justice retired Nasira Iqbal prior to the decision.
It is to mention here that, Wajid Shamsul Hassain had said in a statement that Pakistan’s top leadership might aware of US raid in Abbottanad.
Hassan is not attending two–day envoy conference that is under way under the chairmanship of Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in Islamabad attended by top military officers and ambassadors and high commissioners to 15 countries. The conference is aimed at revisiting country’s foreign policy, especillay in the wake of Nato raid on Pakistani outposts in Mohmand Agecny.
Sources said that Hassan was afraid of being taken into custody by the security establishment.
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