Murtaza Bhutto

"It appears at the time of the incident he was lying on left side, with a pillow
under the temporal region," the report concluded. The X-ray of the skull
showed a bullet entry from the right temporal region and exit from the left
temporal region, making the track through the maxillae and the nasal area,
making them dense and hazy due to bleeding. The multiple radio-opaque
shadows seen on the skull around both holes in the small and soft tissues. No
bullet seen in the skull, the reported concluded. The witness said the distance
from which it was fired could be from two inches to three feet, because there
was no burning, no loss of hair and there had been blackening. The report
was signed by Dr. Akbar Siddiqui, Dr. M. Shafi Quraishy, Dr. Mateen Ahmed
Khan, Dr. M. Ishaque Shaikh, Dr. Syed Mohammad Ali, Dr. (Capt.)
Nizamuddin Memon, Dr. Mohammad Umer Baloch, Dr. Tariq Mirza and
Dr. Azhar Hussain.
The day began with the screening of a PTV film on the Sept 20 incident
showing thick blood on the road and Mideast Hospital humming with
activity and the interview of Asghar Ali, who was apparently in a better
shape, and of another injured in JPMC. The sound track was not good, and
the tribunal has called for another film which will be screened later to see the
film with sound. After the screening of the film on two TV sets, one facing the
judges and the other the lawyers and journalists, the PTV senior news editor,
Osman Ghani Memon, 47, was examined. The film was shown for nearly one
hour and it included shots of the thick blood on the main road, Murtaza's
body being taken to 70-Clifton and then to Larkana from a nearby helipad
amid rush of a crowd in mourning.
Asghar Ali, personal servant of Mir Murtaza, and a police constable, Ayaz
Ali, both injured, were also interviewed by PTV which was shown several
times on the network. Begum Nusrat Bhutto and Ghinwa were shown,
besides Fakhri Begum, sister of Begum Nusrat, making a long telephone call
to some one at Mideast Hospital. The then prime minister was also shown
inside the hospital being escorted by some women.
The vehicles owned by Mir's party were also shown at Clifton police station
with marks of bullet shots and blood inside in almost all the vehicles,
suggesting that Mir's men were shot while still inside their vehicles. After
watching the PTV camera shots by cameramen Pervez Ataullah, Mohammad
Asghar and Amir Mukhtar, the tribunal decided to call all of them in a single
day hearing to find out the timings of their filming. Others who would be
summoned from the television are Iqbal Jamil, reporter, and Mashkoor
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