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A: No.
Q: Given any task?
A: No.
Q: When did you first see the place of incident after Sept 20?
A: Three or four days later.
Q: While you were returning home at 3:30 am, did you visit the site?
A: No. It was too late at night. With the exception of the area SDM, Tariq
Niazi, the other SDMs were allowed to go home.
Tribunal: Whether the SDMs are required in their present positions, after
what they have stated before the tribunal that they were not concerned about
any law and order situation because they saw nothing, did nothing, heard
nothing and inquired nothing.
Another witness examined by the tribunal was Agha Zahiruddin, 35, SDM
Eidgah, who is the son of a former judge of the High Court, Agha Saifuddin.
This witness testified that when he reported on duty at Mideast Hospital, he
was asked by the DC (South) to procure four pints of blood of B-positive
group from Civil Hospital's Patients Welfare Association. He said he got the
blood and returned to the MEH and it was handed over to Dr Ghaffar Jatoi,
and from that time onwards until 3:30 am when he left for home, he
concentrated on the second floor of the hospital at the ICU.
On the morning of Sept 21 two helicopters took off from Clifton helipad. In
one of them the family (Murtaza's) travelled and in the other Murtaza's body
was placed. The helicopters took off at about 1:30 pm on that date. He said it
was his first statement recorded about the incident and never before he
appeared to give any evidence. No meeting was either called or arranged
where the commissioner or the chief secretary reviewed the incident.
Tribunal: What was the reaction of people who had assembled at the helipad?
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