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that they had done so under the threat of losing their jobs, they alleged, held
out by SP Shukaib Qureshi.
Agha Jamil, the SHO of Napier, said he was on duty at his designated place in
a side lane near Old Clifton. There were seven other policemen with him,
including sub-inspector Mohammad Akram, the investigation in charge of
Napier PS, ASI Nasir Khan, head constable Saddhar Ahmed, and constables
Mohammad Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Salim Khan and Rahmat Ali. They,
too, had been questioned by the investigators but no action had been taken
against them but they should be able to testify to his own innocence.
Mr Qaimkhani, the SHO of Garden, also made a similar statement. He said he
had been posted at the Russian Trade Centre to check the movement of any
suspects. He said he was accompanied by ASI Irfan Ahmad and constables
Mohammad Hanif, Pervez Akhtar, Shaukat Ali, Gul Hasan, Zahid Iqbal and
Akhtar Ali, but none of them had been arrested. They all could testify to his
innocence. Both the SHOs have stated that they were posted at places from
where they could not see the site of the shooting and that they themselves
had not fired a single shot and nor had any member of their respective
parties.
Neither of the SHOs complained of any harassment and also stated that they
had no complaints of maltreatment by the investigators in the jail. The
tribunal addressed both of them separately and told them that whoever came
here had said they were innocent and nothing to do with the killing. It could
be that they were right but having suffered for their past actions of harassing
innocent people, they might conduct their business in a legal manner once all
this was over. Agha Jamil admitted, to a question, that there were corrupt
people in the police force but said that there were also some honest ones
among them.
They were asked to emulate the honest men. Kamran Khan, a correspondent
of The News, appeared with a written request that he should be heard as a
witness to reply to the statement made by the former prime minister, Benazir
Bhutto, to clear his name, to which the tribunal said it was not holding a
defamation trial. The tribunal said it was not concerned with who had said
what and that the former prime minister had named 50 people in her
statement and there was no time to allow all those who had been named in
her statement the opportunity to hear them. "We have limited time and by
March 17 the report has to be submitted to the government and we will not
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