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easily accessible, least dangerous and non-vital part of the body, physical
appearance of left boot and pant, and radiological findings, the members of
the board are of the unanimous opinion that the left foot injury of Mr. Haq
Nawaz Sial, SHO Clifton Police Station, Karachi, has been caused by a firearm
at close range and is self-suffered."
On a question from Karim Khan Agha, counsel for the DIG Karachi, and two
ASPs, the police surgeon denied any knowledge that the bullet was fired
from a helicopter and that he had been attacked from a helicopter, as reported
in Dawn of Sept 27: "According to a member of the board, who sought
anonymity, the examination of the policeman's belongings such as his shoes
and socks proved that, if one goes by the injured's account, the direction of
the bullet indicated that he was fired upon from a helicopter because the
bullet had hit him in the inner side of his heel skin which did not hurt the
bone, and the bullet seemed to be from a revolver, and the firearms seized
from Mr. Murtaza Bhutto's men did not include such arms." This passage of
the report was read out to the witness by the chairman and the latter denied
any knowledge and even denied that there was any such suggestion at the
meeting of the board.
The signatories of the board were Prof. M. Shafi Quraishy, professor of
medicine and principal of Dow Medical College; Prof. Abdul Karim Siddiqui,
professor of Surgery, DMC; Prof. A. Mateen Khan, professor of radiology; Dr.
Tariq Mirza, associate professor and head of the department of forensic
medicine and vice principal, DMC; Dr. Nizamuddin Memon, police surgeon;
and Dr. Mohammad Umer Baloch, medical superintendent, Services Hospital,
and civil surgeon. The third report pertained to the examination of the body
of Haq Nawaz Sial on Sept 28 in the mortuary of CHK. He had two wounds
on his skull, a wound of entry on the right temporal region with ecceymonis
in a track from towards the right eye and the size of the wound was 3 cm
which was stitched by the MLO. The size of the wound of exit on the
temporal region was about one and a half cm. The eyes were closed and sunk.
The actual point of entry in the skin was separately examined by the medical
board. This piece of skin was already excised and preserved by the MLO.
The opinion of the board was: "After a careful examination of all evidence
and thorough discussion, the medical board is of the unanimous opinion that
the injury to Mr. Haq Nawaz Sial was a firearm injury, fired from a close
range of two to three feet, resulting from a homicidal act.
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