Murtaza Bhutto

Q: Did you inform the home secretary?
A: I rushed to the hospital immediately and the messages were transmitted
on other channel other than No. 6.
Q: When did you inform the chief secretary?
A: I informed the chief secretary from the hospital's ICU, and he had already
called me and he was already informed about it. I spoke to him three times
and also informed about the condition of Mir Murtaza.
Q: You must have talked to the chief secretary about the post-mortem. When
did you talk to him before and after his (Murtaza's) death?
A: I talked to the CS about post-mortem in the presence of the home
secretary. Mir Mohammad Shaikh, an advocate, (member of the panel of legal
experts of the PPP (SB) party) had said that post-mortem should be
conducted at JPMC, to which I said it should be done here at Mideast.
Q: Did you know who else had died. Who gave that information?
A: I came to know when we were busy in the ICU. I called all my SDMs there.
Q: Till 1:30 am you did not know who else had died and also about Ashiq
Jatoi?
A: The SSP did not tell me about Ashiq Jatoi and not even I asked for
information. I had been repeatedly asking him about Ashiq Jatoi.
Q: When did you come to know about the death of Ashiq Jatoi?
A: Around 12:30 am and 1 am. Finally, at 2:30 am I cam to know about Ashiq
Jatoi, I had given different assignments to different SDMs. I had been asking
the SSP about Ashiq Jatoi but until midnight or 1 am the body had not
reached the JPMC mortuary. I sent one SDM to JPMC and another SDM to
check at Clifton PS, to find out the whereabouts of Ashiq Hussain Jatoi,
because Dr Ghaffar Jatoi had been requesting to find out Ashiq Jatoi's
whereabouts.
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