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Zulfiqar Ali, who were all posted in traffic police, District South, and were on
duty at the traffic police kiosk. The application said these policemen were on
duty at the time of the incident on Sept 20 and were eye-witnesses to the
happenings. The tribunal while accepting the application said it will consider
it on Monday.
The tribunal has so far examined 89 witnesses since it started its proceedings
on Oct. 22, including one woman journalist, many doctors, including Dr
Ghaffar Jatoi, presently minister of communications in the caretaker
government and owner of Mideast Medical Centre, policemen including the
inspector-general, deputy inspectors-general, the home secretary and health
secretary, etc.
On Jan 17 the term of the tribunal expires for the second time. Earlier, it was
extended by the home department and this time, too, the time for submitting
the report will be extended because of the fact that many witnesses are yet to
be examined. Much of the time of the tribunal was lost by medicolegal
officers, sub-divisional magistrates, the doctors on the medical boards, by
giving either not full evidence or partially hiding it, which resulted in calling
other witnesses to get hold of the facts. Many of the doctors have already
been warned of perjury cases against them.
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