Murtaza Bhutto

A: I don't nominate. I ask the additional secretary, technical, to nominate the
members in consultation with the principal of DMC, the police surgeon and
the civil surgeon. These four doctors constitute the board and they even seek
my advice. The boards are constituted keeping in view the nature of the
injuries.
Q: Was there any urgency to get the report after examining the injury to the
SHO?
A: Yes. I gave instructions to the additional secretary, technical, that the
board should be constituted immediately and the report submitted within 24
hours.
Q: Did anybody ask you apart from your own directions?
A: Nobody asked me, except Mrs Ghinwa. A short report was submitted by
Prof Shafi Quraishy and police surgeon Dr Nizamuddin Memon. The report
dated Sept 29 said the examination was conducted at Services Hospital and
the opinion was that the injury was caused by a firearm and it was selfsuffered.
Q: When did you receive a detailed report?
A: After about two to three days. Mrs Ghinwa Bhutto had written it was "selfinflicted"
and the report said it was "self-suffered," and I had asked the
doctors to explain to me the difference between the two. When the report was
published in newspapers and the BBC broadcast it, then the chief minister
asked for details and it was conveyed to him in Islamabad, where he was
then.
Q: Why did you circulate the report directly and why not through the press
information department?
A: No special reason.
Q: Are you authorised to constitute a medical board?
A: Yes.
Q: The report was confidential or secret?
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