Murtaza Bhutto

MIR MURTAZA CASE TRIBUNAL
Riaz Pirzado
KARACHI, Oct 30, 1996: Mr. Shoaib Sadil, DIG Karachi range today told the
3-member inquiry tribunal that by 9.30 pm Mir Murtaza Bhutto critically
injured in the police firing on September 20 last was shifted to the Mid-East
hospital. During cross examination by Mr. Mujeeb Pirzada, the Counsel for
two widows, Ms. Ghinwa and Ms. Badrunissa and the party, he admitted that
Ashiq Hussain Jatoi, a front rank leader of the PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) group
also injured in the firing was brought to the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical
Centre. Late in the night the delay was due to his having been declared
already dead. The tribunal headed by Mr. Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, a judge
of the Supreme Court of Pakistan consists of Mr. Justice Dr. Ghous
Mohammed and Mr. Justice Amanullah Abbasi.
On the date of incident, by 10.30 pm, the injured persons were shifted to
various hospitals. He said, he got this information from the then SSP South
Wajid Ali Durrani, who had come to his official bunglow just opposite the
place of occurrence at about 9.20 pm.
He said, that from the interrogation of Ali Mohammad Sonara who was
arrested from near the Eidgah Police Station on the night of September 17, it
was revealed that some criminals and terrorists were accompanying Mir
Murtaza Bhutto on the date of the incident. He said that since his take-over in
July last year as the DIG Karachi, not a single person of some stature
belonging to any organization or political party had been arrested prior to the
September 20th incident. He said that after the two bomb blast incident each
near the Karachi Gymkhana and the Sindh Secretariat respectively less than
ten workers belonging to Mir Murtaza’s party were taken in custody. He
said, it was not correct to suggest that over two hundred PPP (Shaheed
Bhutto Group) workers were apprehended.
He said, that he had met twice the Intelligence Bureau Chief Masood Sharif
from September 15 to September 20 in connection with some official business.
He had also seen him at the Karachi Airport when the Prime Minister Ms.
Benazir had arrived here at 2.30 am (night) after the incident around 8.30 pm
of September 20.
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