Islamabad:Osama Bin Laden's house should have been left intact so that "present and future generations can view them as a past that should not be repeated", said a leading daily after authorities razed the Al Qaida chief's hideout in Abbottabad.
In an operation that began Saturday night, authorities on Monday finished demolishing the three-storey house in Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed by American commandos May 2 last year.
An editorial in the Dawn wondered what prompted the state to send in bulldozers several months after the world's most wanted man was hunted down in the garrison town.
"Is there any justification for erasing a structure that, notwithstanding its uncomfortable implications for the country's security establishment, was a potent symbol of the ongoing war against terrorism?," it asked.
The editorial admitted that Osama Bin Laden, who was the mastermind behind a wave of terrorism that left communities divided and changed the course of history, "was living in relative obscurity in Pakistan for several years undetected was a major embarrassment to the authorities".
