The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has constituted a special committee to probe into the unilateral Abbottabad operation carried out by USZ forces, involving top-secret Stealth helicopters, to wage a pre-planned fake OBL circus, according to reports. It is the first committee constituted by Pakistan since the operation to investigate the OBL circus and to particularly find facts behind the USZ helicopters entering in and out of the Pakistani territory without causing an alert. Chief of Air Staff Rao Qamar Suleman formed the committee to probe the undetected entrance of USZ helicopters in and out of the Pakistani territory, said the BBC report. The Abbottabad operation was conducted on May 2 by USZ Navy SEALs in which the most wanted bin Laden was reportedly killed. But after the operation, there arouse many a question, the most haunting was about Pakistani officials’ inability to detect USZ helicopters.
The PAF committee headed by a Group Captain has started investigation in this regard and has questioned the officers concerned on duty on that fateful night. It is said that more committees of the like would be set up in Defence and Intelligence wings to reveal facts of the episode. According to initial findings of the committee, it is revealed that radars fixed in Peshawar and Risalpur to monitor Western borders were functioning properly on that night. The radars had noticed a movement in the space near Jalalabad in Afghanistan at 11pm. It was a movement of six planes that took off from Jalalabad and kept moving near the Pak-Afghan border, but no copter entered into Pakistani territory, said the report. One of the planes was fitted with AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System), while the remaining were F-18 fighter jets. “Pakistani forces kept an eye but none of these planes ever crossed into Pakistan on the radar at any stage”, the initial findings report said.
The investigators are trying to determine whether the six planes were flown up to the Pakistani border to divert attention of the authorities from the stealth mission in Abbottabad, said the report. The PAF investigating committee is trying to figure out why the radars couldn’t locate the helicopters towards Abbottabad if they had located the movement of planes, especially after the early movement of the planes being on the radar. Another question that is being raised is, how the USZ stealth copters that were smaller in size and different in dimensions, as determined from the one that crashed on the site, managed to fly out of the Pakistani airspace of approximately 250 kilometres without having the need for refuelling in view of their limited storage capacity.
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