Pakistan authorities probing source behind leaked Abbottabad reports

Pakistani federal agents are reportedly investigating the source behind the recently leaked version of the OBL Commission Report which blamed the incompetence of government and military agencies in tracking down Osama Bin Laden.

According to The Dawn, military and civilian intelligence agencies are probing weather the document was passed on to media organization, Al-Jazeera by one of the Commission members, or by those involved in preparing the draft.

The leaked version blamed the state's collective failure in tracking down Osama Bin Laden while he was living in the country, and for not being able to detect or prevent the unauthorised operation against the Al Qaeda chief by the US Navy SEAL's deep inside the Pakistani territory.

The possibility of PM office being involved has been ruled out as the version uploaded on Al-Jazeera's website is without the signatures of the members and a dissenting note by one of the Commission members is also missing.

According to a well-placed investigator it was the second draft written after the first failed to elicit a consensus among all the members possibly because it is said to have 'named too many names'.

After two versions of the draft faced lack of consensus, a third and final version was then submitted to the Prime Minister's Secretariat on January 4, 2013, which never saw the light of day till the completion of Raja Pervez Ashraf government's tenure some 10 weeks later.

The investigator said that he'd be looking into how many copies were made of the draft, where it was saved and how many secretaries/stenos etc. had access to it as also staff working for some of the commission members who may have got their hands on a copy purely by chance, the report added.