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members of the staff answered the telephone, but would not put us through
to Mrs Bhutto. About 2 ½ hour later, a phone call was received at our hotel
reception asking for "Mr Roy." When he answered, Mr Herridge was met
with a tirade of abuse asking what constitutional rights he had to speak to
Mrs Bhutto. It became abundantly clear that further communication from our
side would have been unwelcome, and we have waited in vain for Mrs
Bhutto to contact us.
— Difficulty arose in relation to interviewing of those in custody from
Bhutto's escort in two ways. Firstly, our written request through the home
minister and the local police may well have been held up due to the current
political situation. Secondly, there appears to have been difficulty in relation
to the appropriate constitutional and judicial authorities to permit such a
interview. Our only comment in relation to this is that it was difficult to get
an overall picture of the incident without these interviews.
— Despite several discussions on the subject, we have been unable to find a
satisfactory way of inviting other potential witnesses to contact us.
The team has reached the conclusion after examining of the post-mortems
and of the doctors' examinations of Haq Nawaz Sial that "the fatal bullet was
fired at close range, and most likely to be self-administered. We attach no
blame to the Police Surgeon and his Department, as his judgment was based
on information from textbooks that are woefully inadequate and out of date.
We will be making recommendations in this and other matters pertaining to
the organisation and training of the medico-legal department in our final
report.
According to the report, the police have recovered 11 weapons from Murtaza
Bhutto's party and they include two G3 automatic assault rifles, one AK fully
automatic assault rifle, four .30 bore calibre pistols, two 9mm Makarov calibre
pistols, one Uzi sub-machinegun and one Beretta SMG. From the police 12
AK fully automatic assault rifles were recovered. A total of 141 cartridge
cases have been recovered from the scene and the vehicles involved in the
incident. Of these 123 have been matched to weapons of the Bhutto group's
weapons and five of the police Aks. The left foot injury to SHO Clifton Sial —
"it was unlikely that the wound was self-inflicted or self-suffered." "It would
appear that a dark coloured Pajero was allowed to pass through the road
block immediately before the first vehicle in Bhutto's convoy. The police have
so far been unable to trace this vehicle, whose occupants may be able to
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