Murtaza Bhutto

She said on Sept 22, the president came to Larkana to "shed crocodile tears"
and at that time nobody had told her that the president was trying to stab her
in the back. In between this period, the president also met Nawaz Sharif and
resignations of the judges were being set to him by the law ministry and half
of them had been accepted. She described the president's behaviour as
unusual. The president was planning to overthrow her government and she
realised she had trusted a wrong man.
Recalling her brother, she said everybody in the PPP respected him and on
arrival at Karachi on the fateful day, she wanted to go straight to the hospital
but she was advised against it for security reasons and, instead, she went
home. She said, with tears rolling down her cheeks, that she lost her last
"Sahara" (shelter), because when a married woman quarrels with her
husband, she can pack up and go to a male member of her family and Mir
was the last male member of her family. Sobbing, she paused for a while and
asked cameramen not to take her pictures, at which Judge Ghous Mohammad
also ordered them to restrain. When she got to the hospital, she said she
asked the staff not to raise the sheet because she could not face it, seeing his
neck bleeding. That was the first time she came to know he was hit in the
neck and until then she thought he had been hit in the stomach. Ms Bhutto
said when she met the president on his return from the Central Asian tour, he
denied his involvement saying he was a Baloch and a man of honour, and he
was like her brother. He had asked her not to suspect him.
She said, according to her information her government was to have been
dismissed either on Oct 26 or Nov 4. On Nov 4, she said the visiting Syrian
defence minister also informed her that her government was to have been
dismissed on Oct 22, on which Tariq Rahim and the military were willing to
mediate between the two.
By dismissing her government, Ms Bhutto said, the president wanted to grab
the party to secure his next term in his office and introduce a presidential
form of the government. He wanted to be a de facto president and prime
minister at the same time, she alleged. She described the intelligence agencies'
personnel as useless, because in their reports they reproduce whatever was
printed in the newspapers and had nothing of their own.
The former prime minister said she believed Brig Imtiaz Ahmed, the former
head of the ISI, had acquired huge property in the names of all his family
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