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Oct. 12 when he was informed by the secretary to the chief minister, Rasool
Bux, that a decision has been taken to call the British experts to investigate
and to aid the police in their investigations.
A letter was sent by the chief secretary of Sindh to the interior secretary for
calling forensic experts in order to hold a transparent inquiry. He said he was
asked to get in touch with chief secretary Sayied Ahmad Qureshi, who wrote
a letter to I. M. Mohsin, secretary interior on the same day.
"On Oct. 24 , the IGP and myself were called to the chief minister's house. The
IG gave me a fax message sent by Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the then high
commissioner in London," he said. The witness produced a copy of the fax
message which gave the details of the experts and other particulars such as
the directions given to all agencies in Karachi to assist the foreign team. "I
don't know whether it was a decision taken by the prime minister or the chief
minister. The decision was taken by the federal government, according to
what I later learnt," he said.
On Nov. 4 last year he was called by the chief minister to say that the
Britishers are not getting full cooperation and the CM asked me to issue a
letter of authority and the law department had vetted the document. He said
on Nov. 5 the government was dismissed and the letter of authority had lost
its meaning.
Manzoor Hussain Bhutto denied the earlier statement made by the provincial
health secretary, Dr Kamil Rajpar, that he (home secretary) was present at a
meeting held at the chief minister's house where the question of
reconstitution of the medical board was raised. He said it was incorrect that
he and the then advocate-general were present at the meeting which was later
joined by Dr Kamil Rajpar. He said there were only three of us in the room,
and the AG, IGP or DIG Karachi were not there at the meeting.
The chief minister had asked the health secretary under what authority the
medical board was constituted, to which he had replied he had the authority.
The CM then gave instructions for the reconstitution of the medical board.
He said after the meeting he left with the health secretary for his office which
was open even on week-end holidays and on the way he received a wireless
message that the IGP and the DIG Police were looking for him. He conveyed
the message back that he was on his way to his office. "As I alighted from my
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