Murtaza Bhutto

Q: Hakim Ali Zardari was not on good terms with your late father and on
account of his political differences with your father, he may have a hand in
the September 20th last incident?
Ans. I am not aware of it. She, however replied in the negative if he (Hakim
Ali Zardari) may have a hand in the incident.
Q: It is put to you that you have given statement before the tribunal to cover
up the involvement of Asif Ali Zardari in the incident and that you had not
met late Mir Murtaza after his return to Pakistan till July 7, 1996 when you
invited him to the prime minister house at Islamabad?
Ans. I wanted to meet him even in jail and had sent him message through
common friends. But late Murtaza had replied that his party was opposed to
the idea.
Q: In order to save Asif Ali Zardari, you are providing a cover up to the
police officials involved in the incident?
Ans. No. I wanted to get to the bottom of the incident. Questioned by Nihal
Hashmi, the counsel for eleven cops arrested in the incident including an ASI
named Basit, she said, she did not lodge an FIR against the President Leghari
and Brigadier Imtiaz, as she wanted institution of an independent enquiry
and investigation and it was with this end in view that the British team of
detectives was assigned the task.
She might have met Masood Sharif former chief of the Intelligence Bureau,
after the incident, but she specifically remembered that Masood Sharif was
not present at the high-level meeting convened by her at Islamabad to discuss
threadbare the September 20 the last incident.
Manzoor Bhutta, the counsel for Dr. Mazharul Haq the injured party activist,
she said, she did not recollect if a list of 37 persons involved in the murder of
late Mir Murtaza and others was presented to her during her tenure as the
prime minister of Pakistan. She also did not recollect if, that list included
important personalities like the federal and provincial ministers.
She was shown a news item published in daily 'Jang' being published from
Karachi of October 24 last issue, which said that the persons responsible for
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