Overview
- Farhatullah Babar’s new book recounts a 6:30 a.m. meeting called by President Asif Ali Zardari with Hina Rabbani Khar, Salman Bashir and the author after the Abbottabad operation.
- Babar says he urged an immediate inquiry, framing Pakistan’s dilemma as “complicit or sheer incompetence,” yet he writes that Zardari rejected punitive accountability.
- The book describes a 14-hour wait for an official response and labels a press release suggesting intelligence-sharing with the US as hollow.
- Babar writes that no investigations or intelligence restructuring followed, citing civilian reluctance, military resistance and reported foreign advice against punitive action.
- He also reports post-raid visits by Hillary Clinton and John Kerry without US assurances against future unilateral strikes, plus CIA access to bin Laden’s wives and prior knowledge of the compound’s builder.