 "Osama bin Laden")
According to the Abbottabad Commission's investigations, Pakistan's intelligence establishment had "closed the book" on bin Laden by 2005, and was no longer actively pursuing intelligence that could lead to his capture.Moreover, it found that there had been a complete collapse of governance and law enforcement - a situation it termed "Government Implosion Syndrome", both in the lack of intelligence on bin Laden's nine-year stay in Pakistan, and in the response to the US raid that killed him.
The commission also heard testimony from some of the country's most important players, including the ISI chief, Ahmad Shuja Pasha, who shared the view that Pakistan is a 'failing state'
The 337-page Abbottabad Commission report, accessed by Al Jazeera, has slammed the government and military for a "national disaster" over its handling of Bin Laden and calls on the leadership to apologize to the people of Pakistan for their "dereliction of duty." The report also finds that "culpable negligence and incompetence at almost all levels of government can more or less be conclusively established".
Read: The full report
Read: The full report
The commission has also expressed suspicion that certain officials of the intelligence wing colluded to ensure Bin Laden and his family were able to stay and travel in Pakistan without detection.This they conclude, could take place as the Osama family had a small, but dedicated, network "that met their every need."
"Abbottabad Commission" report has been authored by former supreme judge Javed Iqabl who was appointed by the government as chief of a five member team to trace down how bin Laden lived and was killed without official knowledge.
Dawn said that the report was particularly critical of premier spy agency ISI for being so causal in first tracking bin Laden and then investigating the US attack which killed him on May 2.
Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, over 100 kilometers from capital Islamabad, was located close to Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), the nursery of all officers of military, where he lived for about five years since 2005.
Dawn says that the report was also critical of PMA commandant, an army major general, for obstructing the working civilian law enforcement agencies in its area.
The Express Tribune said that civil and military leadership should "apologise" for their failure, but did not fix the responsibility on a single or group of persons.
"It is unnecessary to specify the names as its obvious who they are," the paper quoted the report. "It may be politically unrealistic to suggest punishments for them. But as honourable men, they ought to do the Honourable thing, including submitting a formal apology to the nation for their dereliction".
It says that those individuals who wielded authority and influence the decision making in the country bear the responsibility of the creating circumstances which resulted in May 2 incident.
