The Abbottabad compound, used by Osama bin Laden as a safe house till US commandos shot him dead, will be demolished soon by Pakistani security agencies so that it does not become a “sacred building for jihadis”.
The compound, located about 800 yards from the Pakistan military academy, has been sealed by the army to gather any information that was left after a US special forces team raided it on Monday and killed the world’s most wanted terrorist.
“Like we have done in the past, we will also raze to the ground this building so that it should not become a sacred building for the jihadis,” an unnamed source from a security agency was quoted as saying by The News daily. The security agencies had demolished Jamia Hafsa, a seminary affiliated to the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad, after a military operation in 2007 to avoid “any bitter situation”, the source said.
Authorities had not yet decided whether the media will be allowed to enter the compound, the report said. A decision to demolish it will be taken soon, it said.
-Agencies