Murtaza Bhutto

941 MURTAZA MEN WERE TRAINED BY RAW:
DURRANI
H. A. Hamied
KARACHI, Nov. 24, 1996: Wajid Ali Durrani, the SSP under arrest, submitted
before a three-member tribunal inquiring into the causes of the death of Mir
Murtaza Bhutto and seven others that when he had decided to take action
against the guards of the former MPA, there were 41 interrogation reports
against them. These reports, he said, had suggested that 941 people belonging
to Mir Murtaza had been trained by Indian intelligence agency RAW. They
included Mohammad Hussain Khusk, who had given full details of the
activities of the training.
The SSP, who was in the police custody until Sunday and later in the day
remanded in judicial custody by a court, said that 198 bomb blasts had
occurred in the province since 1988 the majority of them were in Karachi —
and in 100 cases the men of Murtaza were involved.
He told the tribunal, comprising Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid of the Supreme
Court (chairman) and two members, Justice Amanullah Abbasi and Justice Dr
Ghous Mohammad of the SHC, that the bomb blasts in Karachi were reported
in Bohri Bazaar, CPO, Sindh Secretariat and CIA centre, and Hamdard, which
were all carried out by armed terrorists belonging to the party of Murtaza.
Mr Durrani, who completed his deposition on Sunday, said with this
evidence he was disturbed, because, according to him, a 'chapattiwala' and an
important person are both equal to him. The senior police officer was
replying to a question from the tribunal at the end of his four-day
examination if he had anything important which he might want to make
clear, apart from the firing, if there was any relevant matter which may have
a bearing for the tribunal, which he would like to disclose.
Mr Durrani was originally scheduled to be questioned by his own counsel,
Khwaja Sharful Islam, for clarification of certain statements that he (Durrani)
had made, but as the proceedings started at midday on Sunday, he gave up
and all the questions were put to him by the tribunal.
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