Murtaza Bhutto

Sindh Assembly. He had contested the 1993 elections from Larkana during
his absence from Pakistan.
Later, during the elections to the Senate, the witness said that on a query, late
Mir Murtaza had told him that he would vote for the PPP-nominated
candidate as it was the party founded by his late father and was dear to him.
Late Mir Murtaza had also cast his vote in favour of Sardar Farooq Ahmed
Leghari during his election to the office of the President of Pakistan as the
PPP nominee.
The witness said, that he used to meet late Mir Murtaza during his
production before the special court and that he Murtaza used to express his
anger over the discrimination being meted out to the PPP activists,
unemployment, lack of medical and educational facilities and transport
misrule and corruption rampant by Ms. Benazir's government.
Late Mir Murtaza also used to say that if he was voted to power, he would
concentrate on the total eradication of these evils and direct his engeries
towards bettering the economic lot of the poor and the less fortune ones. The
witness said that Mir Murtaza's Press statements had started making his
party popular among the masses and this was disliked by Ms. Benazir
partymen particularly Asif Ali Zardari.
In order to control PPP (SB's) growing popularity, political vindictiveness of
the PPP(SB) workers was started as was evident from the fact that late Ali
Mohammad Hingoro was made to come out from Begum Nusrat Bhutto's car
when she was returning home after meeting late Mir Murtaza in the special
court and involved in old cases registered against him during late Ziaul Haq's
regime. Late Hingoro later died in the Karachi Central Prison for want of
medical treatment, it was also because that he (Hingoro) had refused to give
in when pressed hard to abandon supporting late Mir Murtaza's Party and
revert his loyalties towards Benazir's PPP. Late Hingoro was also assured of
his meeting with Asif Ali Zardari and monetary payments.
The witness said, that like late Ali Mohammad Hingoro two Mir Murtaza
party's workers, Amin Baloch and Muala Bux were apprehended on fake and
fictitious charges and were still languishing in jail. These tactics however did
not prove fruitful and lot of people started joining the PPP(SB).
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