Murtaza Bhutto

He was also asked to bring with him all information he had on the two bomb
blasts that occurred outside the Karachi Gymkhana and the Sindh Secretariat
a couple of days before the Sept 20, incident.
SINDH IGP'S CROSS-EXAMINATION: The inspector general of the Sindh
police, Mohammed Saeed Khan, came to the witness stand for crossexamination
at 2.07 pm.
He said he was appointed to his present post by the Establishment Division of
the federal government on Aug 15, 1995, and his services were placed at the
disposal of the Sindh government. The cross-examination lasted two hours,
and detailed excerpts are:
Justice Zahid, chairman of the enquiry tribunal, began the cross-examination
after Mr Khan took oath from Justice Ghous Mohammed.
Q: When were you aware of the incident?
IG: On 19/9/96 I had taken leave from the CM to attend to certain family
problems and went to Peshawer. The next day I came back from Peshawer at
8 pm and reached home at my official residence 5 - Bath Island at 10.30 pm.
Till I reached Bath Island I did not know anything about the incident.
Q: Was there no wireless in your car?
IG: I have a wireless set in my official car and when I reached the Finance and
Trade Centre on Sharea Faisal, I was getting some reports in the wireless. But
there were a lot of confusing messages coming from the wireless and as such I
did not get the message that the incident in question happened. But from
whatever I could make out something serious had happened.
When I reached my house I immediately rang up the DIG, Karachi Range, at
10.30 pm who was available at his residence which is opposite the place of the
incident of 20/9/96 and asked him what had happened. The DIG, Dr Shoaib
Suddle, informed me that a shoot-out had taken place in which 6 persons had
died and 6 were injured out of whom 2 were policemen. He further said that
Mir Murtaza Bhutto had been seriously injured but he had not died and had
been taken to Mideast Hospital.
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