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The DIG then told me that he was being disturbed by non-stop telephone
calls and in the circumstances he could not give full details of the incident
and that he would come to my house. After about 5 minutes he came.
When he arrived at my house he more or less repeated what he had told me
over the telephone, adding that the operation in charge was SSP Wajid Ali
Durrani. I put on my official uniform and both of us went to the scene of the
incident at 11.05 pm. I was totally unaware of the operation that had been
carried out. The daily situation reports that are received by me every day also
made no mention of the proposed action.
(Justice Zahid asked further questions to which the answers continued as part
of this narrative.)
On 17/9/96 at about 10 am the DIG, Karachi, came to my office and told me
that during the night between 16th and 17th Sept, 1996, Ali Sonara, a member
of the party of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his gunman, had been arrested, and
later in the day Mir Murtaza Bhutto with some gunmen came to the CIA
centre located in Napier Police Station and the Riaz CIA centre located in
Garden Police Station and threatened the police on duty and some of the
police personnel were disarmed.
The information given to me was that the party wanted to locate Ali Sonara
but he was not in either of the police stations. According to the DIG, the party
of Mir Murtaza Bhutto went to all the areas of the police station searching for
Ali Sonara but he could not be found and then they left after some time.
Q: What did you discuss with the CM about the incident of 20/9/96?
IG: At that time the CM was in Dadu, but as the PM was reaching Karachi the
same night, the CM came back by road and was present at the airport when
the PM landed. I briefed the PM and the CM about the incident. By that time
Mir Murtaza Bhutto had already died but the PM was not aware of his death.
At about 10 am on 21/9/96 I called DIG (Crime) Masud Piracha and DIG
(Inspection & Enquiry) Malik Mohammed Iqbal. I directed the DIG (Crime) to
investigate the crime immediately and directed the DIG (Inspection &
Enquiry) to departmentally ascertain the role of police officers present at the
incident.
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