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The witness, who was in his room at MMC, got down from the second floor
at about 9:20 pm and saw Dr Ejaz Shamim, RMO, standing near a patient on a
stretcher close to the lift. The patient was Mir Murtaza who had been
profusely bleeding from mouth, nose and neck, and with his clothes drenched
in blood, he was struggling to breathe.
He then made inquiries about Ashiq Hussain Jatoi, the PPP (SB) president of
Hyderabad, because he always accompanied Mr Bhutto wherever he went.
His brother, Dr Zahid Hussain Jatoi, had no knowledge about Ashiq and he
was disturbed and the witness spent the whole night in search of the man.
He went to the police station once and to JPMC twice and no information,
according to him, had been forthcoming despite the fact that the DC (South)
was interested to find the missing man because Dr Ghaffar Jatoi, managing
director of the MMC, was his brother-in-law. Finally at about 3:45 am his
body and those of five others were traced in the JPMC mortuary where they
had been taken from Clifton police station. Ashiq Jatoi's post-mortem was
conducted at 6:30 am at JPMC and at 8 am the body was flown via Larkana in
a helicopter to Beto Jatoi, district Dadu, for burial.
He said people who had gathered at the hospital were angry with the police
and the administration. Mrs Ghinwa Bhutto and Nasir Hussain, brother-inlaw
of Mir Murtaza, had also visited the hospital and they remained there for
almost the whole night, until the body was shifted to the residence nearby.
The tribunal which started recording the evidences at 12:25 concluded the
session for the day at 5 pm to resume again on Wednesday at 12-noon.
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