Murtaza Bhutto

SURGEON APPEARS IN TRIBUNAL
KARACHI, Feb. 19, 1997: A general surgeon of the Aga Khan University
Hospital, with specialisation in orthopaedic field, told a judicial tribunal of
inquiry on Wednesday that the bullet injuries suffered by one of the assistant
superintendents of police, Shahid Hayat, was not self-suffered and it was
neither a superfluous wound.
Dr Raja Mohammad Shahzad Khan, 35, who had performed surgical
operation on ASP Shahid Hayat, was produced as a witness by counsel,
Karim Khan Agha, appearing for the DIG Karachi, and two ASPs involved in
the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto at Clifton on Sept 20. A bullet had passed
through the ASP's left thigh and the tribunal asked him whether the injury
could have been caused by his own people, to which he replied there was
remote possibility.
Q: Was it self-suffered?
A: There is high percentage possibility it was not self-suffered.
Q: What is the proof?
A: A less dangerous point is selected, but in this case it was a vital part of the
thigh and the wound was close to the blood vessel and the vein and if they
were hit he could have lost his leg.
Q: According to his experience can he mention the distance from where it was
fired?
A: It was fired from a distance of three to 30 feet and a high velocity fire-arm
has been used.
Q: It would have been a low velocity fire-arm?
A: No.
Q: The AKUH is not designated as medicolegal hospital and how the ASP
was admitted and treated?
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