By IANS,
Islamabad : The government is wringing its hands over the US raid to kill Osama bin Laden, a Pakistani daily said, adding that “we must not attempt to push things under the rug”.
Osama bin Laden was gunned down May 2 by heavily armed US commandos in Abbottabad city.
An editorial in the The News International Friday said that while the “government apparently wrings its hands in indecision” over the Abbottabad raid, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif has demanded an inquiry into it.
Sharif has asked why the government is reluctant to set up such a probe.
“Certainly the questions raised by the PML-N chief are highly relevant…we all want to know what happened and find out about the security lapses involved, and considering the nature of the fiasco it may be difficult to expect an inquiry conducted only by the army to have a satisfactory degree of credibility,” the editorial said.
It added that “we must not attempt to push things under the rug and try to eradicate troubling thoughts from our collective memory. This has happened before in our history…”
The editorial advised that at “this crucial point in time, it is vital that the government acts as a strong body capable of putting national interest ahead of all other considerations”.