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The third witness examined was Syed Ali Murtaza, 26, SDM Garden. He said
he received a call from the control at 9:30 pm about the firing incident at 70-
Clifton.
When he reached there, he saw an APC, two rangers' vehicles at Do Talwar
and the road leading to 70-Clifton was closed.
Q: What did you do after reaching the hospital?
A: I saw Murtaza on bed, and he was being attended by two to three doctors.
Ms Ghinwa was also there. His Kamiz (long shirt) was taken off and he
looked unconscious and I did not see much blood. His Shalwar was blood
stained, and the DC asked me to arrange a direct telephone at the hospital.
Q: Did he ask for a hot line at the hospital?
A: The DC got in touch with Niaz Hussain Shah, SDM, to get a hot line from
Clifton telephone exchange.
Hameed Haroon was also inside the hospital and he had asked for an
ambulance which perhaps meant that there was a possibility of shifting
Murtaza to some other hospital.
The impression I got was that the condition of the patient had not been good
and, therefore, he was being shifted to some other hospital. I went to the
second floor where the ICU is located. The DC asked me to arrange for an
ambulance. As the Edhi ambulances were not good, I reported back that
AKUH ambulances were not available at that time either.
Hameed Haroon then asked me to get one from St. John's Ambulance and
also try to get one from the AKUH.
The DC (South) was asked by Ashiq Jatoi's family about his whereabouts.
Q: Your job was to find out where Ashiq Jatoi had been taken to?
A: I asked the police to find out where Ashiq was taken. The control room
again said they had no information about him. While I was downstairs three
ambulances from Edhi, St. Johns and AKUH arrived in my presence and the
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