Murtaza Bhutto

people were killed. She said she was not aware who the four people killed
were, loyal either to Mir Murtaza, the police or the ISI. Mr Sonara had
allegedly informed the police that there were weapons in 70-Clifton, rocket
launchers and grenades and sophisticated arms. On Sept 17, she said the
police wanted to raid the place to which she refused permission, saying "there
is no need to do that and just keep watch on the movement of people" and
under the same principle Nawaz Sharif's house was never raided.
On Sept 18, she said the police wanted to raid 70-Clifton but she again
refused permission. On Sept 19, there was bomb blasts and she had asked the
police for surveillance after Mr Sonara's arrest. The police wanted her to
revise her instructions for a raid on Mir's residence, and a situation was being
created to force her to allow the raid and then get blamed for any
miscalculations on the part of the police. Ali Sonara, she said, was her
bodyguard in April 1986 and later worked with the DG of IB, Brig Imtiaz
Ahmed. At that time Mr Sonara was taking a lot of her pictures which she
thought was to be used against her through the IB.
Coming direct to the point of conspiracy, Ms Bhutto said President Leghari
wanted to sack her and one of the conditions for sacking was the murder of
her brother and she never thought that he was discrediting her, because both
knew each other for 20 years.
The president wrote a letter to the chief justice of Pakistan and endorsed a
copy to her to know what the powers of the president and the prime minister
on the appointment of judges to the superior courts were. This he did without
taking her into confidence and the relations between her and the president
thus far were cordial and all the issues were settled between them amicably
and not referred to a third party without taking her into confidence.
On this reference which was made by the president to the Supreme Court,
Gen Babar and Aftab Sherpao talked to him and he told them not to suspect
him of any differences between him and the prime minister. She said she sent
the president's letter to Yahya Bakhtiar who was in the US at that time for his
advice, as it was a important matter. The president agreed to have a meeting
on this issue on Oct 28 although I had sought a meeting on Oct 21. Before that
such meetings were possible on a 15-minutes notice. Ms Bhutto said she
talked to the military also at a normal lunch meeting and from that time
onwards she started taking him seriously, as after Sept 20, she had a
psychological breakdown.
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