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with the police and abused them and possibly there was a scuffle between
them.
Q: Did Hameed Haroon ask you to call an ambulance, who told you that Mir
Murtaza should be shifted?
A: Hameed Haroon and others had not said that the injured is being shifted,
but people looking after him gave me the impression that they wanted to
shift him to some other hospital.
Q: Did you go to the place of the incident?
A: No.
Q: Can you give any reason why the entire bureaucracy of the government
did not know the whereabouts of the other dead men and of the injured
persons.
A: The injured or the dead could not be located only on wireless messages.
Q: Can you give any reason why no effective answer was given as to why one
or two SDMs did not go to any of the hospitals where possibly the dead and
injured could have been taken?
A: If one of the SDMs had been sent to a hospital, why did not you come to
know about the number of the dead or the injured and where were they
shifted?
Q: Seven SDMs could not find out where the injured or the dead were lying?
A: I did not get any definite information from the police.
Q: If the police were not responding and that they were in panic, could not
you have contacted the home secretary or the chief secretary?
A: There was no response from the police, they were panicky. There was no
trace of Ashiq Hussain and people were hurling abuses at the police, saying
that they were Punjabi police.
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