... he's rotten though not quite forgotten...
by US commandos in Abbottabad in May this year seems to be heading nowhere,
| They dunnit, they're proud, and whatcha gonna do about it, anyway? |
In a terse blurb, the commission barred all relevant people from travelling abroad. The blurb carried only one name, that of Dr Shakeel Afridi who allegedly helped conduct a phoney polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination campaign at the behest of the CIA to secure DNA of Osama bin Laden and his family.
| So it's really only one person. Effective commission you've got there, guys. |
Dr Afridi is already under custody of the Inter Services Intelligence. Confirming the detention of Dr Afridi by the ISI, a security bigshot said the agency was interrogating the medical doctor because he had been found involved in anti-state activities.
Asked about the reason for specifically mentioning the name of Dr Afridi in the blurb by the Abbottabad commission when he was already in jug, the official said the commission might have thought that the doctor could leave the country if released by the ISI.
Earlier, the commission had stopped the government from releasing Osama's widows and children without permission.
One conjecture why Dr Afridi by name has been barred from travelling abroad is the reported telephone call from US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Abel P. Upshur...
to President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
a week ago for his release. According to media reports, the president turned down the request, arguing that Dr Afridi was facing a judicial inquiry.
The opposition PML-N has already rejected the setting up of the commission.
Talking to Dawn, PML-N information secretary Senator Mushahidullah Khan said his party knew from day one that the commission was a waste of time because it was formed without consulting the leader of the opposition, negating the collective wisdom of parliament. He said one shouldn't expect anything concrete from the commission because some of its members had a "questionable track record".
The PML-N wanted a certain timeframe for the commission to give its final recommendations, but the government has included no such provision in its terms of reference.
The commission is headed by a recently retired senior judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Javed Iqbal, while a former chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt-Gen (retd) Nadeem Ahmed, former inspector general of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
police Abbas Khan and former career diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi are its members.