Pakistani lawmakers will discuss leaked report on slain al-Qaeda chief

Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Defense Affairs will hold a discussion on the different parts of the report on Wednesday, the daily Dawn newspaper reported.
 
The committee’s chairman, Senator Mushahid Hussain, said that the body has not invited any senior government or military official to attend the “in camera” meeting due to the sensitivity of the matter.
 
The committee members would first hold an internal discussion on the contents of the leaked report and try to reach consensus on how to proceed further, Hussain added.
 
He praised those whistleblowers who leaked the classified and critical information.
 
“For me, it is not leaked but a lead. Whoever has leaked the report, has done a great public service,” he said, adding that “The report has brought truth before the nation.”
 
Pakistani government report has blasted the country's civilian and military leadership for failing to detect the presence of bin Laden for years.
 
The fact-finding report, never released publicly, was ordered after the May 1, 2011 raid by US Special Forces on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad near Islamabad.
 
The 336-page report found the Pakistani government has been negligent, inefficient, and incompetent in the bin Laden affair. The long-suppressed report also detailed bin Laden's secret life and called the handling of bin Laden affair a 'national disgrace.'
 
The report said Pakistan's intelligence establishment had "closed the book" on bin Laden in 2005, and had been no longer actively pursuing intelligence that could have led to his capture.
 
It also called on the leadership to apologize to the people of Pakistan for their "dereliction of duty."
 
US President Barack Obama claimed that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces on May 1, 2011 in a hiding compound in Pakistan.
 
A US official later announced that bin Laden's body was abruptly buried at sea, adding that their decision for a sea burial was made because no country would accept bin Laden's remains, without elaborating on which countries were actually contacted on the matter.
 
Media reports, however, have raised serious questions as to why US officials did not allow for the application of a DNA test to officially confirm the identity of the corpse before its hasty burial.