Murtaza Bhutto

the killing of late Mir Murtaza has been identified and that former chief
minister Sindh had flown to Islamabad to inform her (Benazir) about them.
This is a distorted version. I wanted to get to the bottom of the incident
including as to who was the officer who had ordered opening of fire.
Q: Is it a fact that Agha Siraj former provincial minister, Agha Rafiq former
judge of the High Court, and Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Mirza ex-MNA were intimately
friendly with Asif Ali Zardari?
Ans. It is correct that Dr. Zulfikar Ali Mirza was close to Asif, but the
remaining two above mentioned were not so intimate with Asif.
Q: Is it a fact that on late Mir Murtaza's return to Pakistan in November 1993,
he was put under arrest at the instance of Asif Zardari?
Ans. I am not aware of it.
About the arrest of Shah Nawaz Shani, an activist of the PPP (SB), she said,
she was neither aware about his arrest nor his release.
Questioned by Syed Ghazanfar Ali, the counsel for Nazar Mohammed Brohi,
one of the deceased in the incident, if it was a fact that Mr Ali Ahmed Junejo,
judge of the suppression of the terrorists court, was sacked next day for
granting bail to late Mir Murtaza, she said, she was not aware of it.
Asked about late Ali Mohammed Hingoro ex-MPA, she said that he
(Hingoro) was close to her and eulogised his services he had rendered for the
party. Hingoro was arrested during the tenure of late Jam Sadiq Ali as the
chief minister Sindh. She does not know if he (Hingoro) was arrested during
her tenure in 1993. She learnt about the demise of Hingoro and was shocked.
Questioned about the police firing allegedly on Al-Murtaza at Larkana in
1994, she said, she was told that the police had retaliated the firing by late Mir
Murtaza men. She had, however, ordered about the setting up of a judicial
enquiry and would call for the report of that enquiry for production before
the tribunal.
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