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she got a call from Gen Babar at 9.30pm saying that Mir's condition was
critical and that the chances his survival were 50-50. On hearing that news she
became hysterical, Ms Bhutto said. "On this I wanted to immediately leave for
Karachi and asked my military secretary to arrange an aircraft and her
husband was of the view that it (the situation) might not be very critical and
advised me not to go to Karachi."
She said she picked up a copy of the Holy Quran which was near her bed and
started reciting it and asked the then interior minister and others who had
been continuously phoning her up to get in touch with her doctor in Karachi,
get an ambulance, and the best of doctors from any where. Ms Bhutto said
that night her mother was out of the country and her only sister, Sanam, had
heard about it from Subuk Majeed, a friend of Mir's and a drug convict, and
asked him how come he got into this and learnt of the murder before she did.
It was Mr Majeed who had informed Sanam that Mir's heart had been
revived. Sanam also rang her (Ms Bhutto) up at 10.15pm and she was
informed that there were no doctors at the Mideast Medical Centre where Mir
had been taken by the police. She said till 10.00pm, there had been no doctor,
no anaesthetist, no phone except one, no drip facilities and that Mir should
have been taken to some other hospital where all these facilities were
available. Until 9.30pm it was still not too late to shift him to another hospital,
but at 10 pm it was too late.
Ms Bhutto said her brother died of sheer negligence of the hospital and "I
don't want that others be taken there." When she left Islamabad by a special
plane, she said, the president and his wife came to see her off at the airport
and sympathised with her. The former prime minister said: "At 8.45pm my
niece, Fatima, heard the first shot outside her house (70- Clifton) and Mir's
watch had stopped at 8.45pm." She said that proved that the fatal firing
started at that hour.
She did ask how Najib Zafar knew of the shooting at a time when the interior
minister Babar, the DIG and the SSP were not aware of it. She requested the
tribunal to call for Subuk Majeed's telephone bills of that period to examine
the calls he had made. She also asked whose was the hidden hand that has
informed Subuk Majeed and who in return informed Sanam and also made a
call to Ghinwa, and made a call to Nagib Zafar.
Ms Bhutto said she was not aware where Nagib Zafar was on that fateful
night and there was confusion as to who received the calls and from whom
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