Murtaza Bhutto

spent on the investigation of the killing of the brother of a sitting prime
minister was not much.
The entire police is badly managed and poorly trained and there is no update
of any investigation, and it is always subjected to outside pressure, she
remarked. She said the British team had called on her while she was still
prime minister and she had quoted them as saying that Sajjad Jhakro and Yar
Mohammad Yaroo, two members of the PPP(SB) party had been responsible
for starting off the shooting.
The tribunal asked her about the "sanctity of 70-Clifton" as, according to Dr
Ghous Mohammad, sanctity on earth was that of the Holy Ka'aba and Masjidi-Nabvi.
The judge asked the former prime minister what sanctity she was
talking about, and according to her own statement, terrorists and dangerous
criminals were residing there in the name of "sanctity." "Dangerous
criminals", like Ali Sonara, lived there, he said referring to her earlier
statement and asked why like other such places, it should not be allowed to
be raided by the police.
Ms Bhutto replied that if places like 70-Clifton, or Nawaz Sharif's home or
Nine-Zero in Liaquatabad were raided it would be harmful to the interests of
Pakistan, both internationally and internally. About payments made to the
British team, she said they were paid by the government of Pakistan and not
by the government of Sindh, although maintenance of the law and order
situation was the provincial subject.
The tribunal also reminded her of the statement of the then home secretary of
the province that the money was paid by the federal government, although
the government of Sindh had set aside Rs13 million to be paid in foreign
exchange through the high commissioner in London. On the negligence of the
police in conducting proper and lawful investigation in the case, Ms Bhutto
said this was not the first case in which negligence was shown, adding that
the conditions have been bad for the last 25 years. All these years it could be
seen that no attention was paid to their training and handling of the criminal
investigations although her father had taken steps to improve the working of
the force.
The tribunal asked her if she offered herself to be examined in the case to
substantiate the charge of conspiracy and Justice Ghous Mohammad read out
from a book to explain what a conspiracy meant.
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