Murtaza Bhutto

When Begum Nusrat Bhutto was unjustly and arbitrarily removed from the
office of the Chairperson of the PPP, this had gravely hurt the feelings of late
Mir Murtaza and other workers of the party. It was a message to the PPP
workers that Asif Zardari could get it done whatever he desired.
It was also a message to late Mir Murtaza. On January 1994 last, while a
procession of the PPP workers led by Begum Nusrat Bhutto left the Al-
Murtaza House on way to the resting place of Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto, it was
fired upon directly by the police as a result of which two PPP workers each
Ghulam Kadir Jakhro and Shahid Rind died in an attempt to save Begum
Nusrat Bhutto.
While this tragedy was being mourned at the Al-Murtaza the PPP leaders
including Asif Ali Zardari were jubilantly celebrating the Birthday of late
Z.A. Bhutto on the same evening at the Municipal Stadium just oppositive the
Al-Murtaza House. The people of entire Larkana were deeply grieved at the
atrocities being perpetrated by the Benazir Government. Instead of healing
the wounds of the aggrieved, case was registered against the PPP(SB) and the
innocent arrested party workers after remaining behind the bars had recently
been bailed out.
The witness said that it was an attempt to strike a severe blow to the PPP(SB).
One Saifullah Khalid of the intelligence bureau was assigned this task. The
witness said, that late Mir Murtaza Bhutto had given specific instructions to
his security guards to respect the law of the land and stop their vehicles
whenever signalled by the police and show to them the credentials and the
arm licences they had been lawfully carrying.
He produced before the tribunal a number of photographs taken in this
behalf. He said, that late Mir Murtaza after undertaking a tour of Peshawar
had returned from Islamabad on the night of September 16. Asif Zardari had
also travelled with him in the same flight. The witness said, that he had gone
to the Karachi Airport to receive late Mir Murtaza and had come across there
Siraj Durrani, former provincial minister who along with one Imdad had also
come there to receive Asif Ali Zardari.
The witness said, that at about 1.30 am (Night between Sept 16 and 17 last),
Tariq, came to his apartment and informed him about the arrest of Ali
Mohammed Sonaro Vice President of the PPP(SB), Sindh from a flat near
Eidgah. He immediately went to the 70-Clifton where he found the wife of
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