'Harried' Pak army quick to shift 'Osama fiasco' blame on police following Abbottabad report leak

Pakistan's military has held the local police responsible for not spotting the house Osama Bin Laden and his family had been living in for years in their briefing to the Abbottabad Commission.

Army's board of inquiry, established under Lt-Gen Javed Iqbal, told the commission that the local Nawan Shehar police station was located close to Osama's compound.

The board added that the police failed to observe anything unusual about the place and no report on anything suspicious was ever filed neither by the police nor special branch.

According to the Express Tribune, it said the police ignored or failed to take note of even the visible violation of cantonment regulations in the shape of construction of a third storey at the compound.

The board said that poor coordination among agencies, duplication of work, qualitative and quantitative inadequacies of training, skills and equipment made it possible for Osama to escape detection in Abbottabad, the report added.