Murtaza Bhutto

POLICE USED 12 MACHINE-GUNS IN SEPT 20
SHOOTING
KARACHI, March 7, 1997: Twelve submachine guns were used by the police
in the shooting on Sept 20 last year at Clifton, near the house of Mir Murtaza
Bhutto in which Mir Murtaza and seven of his partymen were killed.
According to a report submitted by the criminalistic division of Sindh Police,
headed by assistant inspector general, Ghulam Abbas Jaferi, the weapons
were used mostly by the low-ranking men, four constables, one head
constable and one ASI, while names of six other users of the arms had not
been supplied to the ballistic expert. The report has been submitted before the
tribunal of inquiry at Karachi, which is investigating Sept 20 shooting. All the
SMGs used by the police were of 7.62 mm bore.
The names of the six policemen who fired their weapons were: ASI Abdul
Basit of Clifton Police Station; HC Muslim Shah of Gizri PS and PCs Ahmed
Khan, a guard of ASP Saddar, Ghulam Mustafa, Zafar Iqbal, Ghulam Shabbir
all from Gizri PS. Twenty one empties were also examined and compared
with the weapons by means of different equipment and the opinion of the
expert was all the bullets of which empties were recovered were fired from
the submachine guns.
Opinion was also expressed that all the 12 SMGs were automatic and were in
working conditions. The criminalistic division also latter received two more
weapons 9 mm bore pistols recovered from ASP Rae Mohammad Tahir and
head constable Faisal Hafeez.
Again on Oct. 27, sub inspector Hakim Ali of Garden Police Station deposited
containing a .38 bore revolver and 13 live cartridges of .38 bore. The ballistic
expert's office had also received 11 different types of weapons which were in
the possession of Mir's men. They were handed over to the Criminalistic
division in 19 sealed parcels, concerning 11 FIRs Nos. 387/96 to 397/96 under
section 13-(d) of Arms Ordinance of Clifton PS, Karachi south, each sealed in
separate parcels and different magazines, live cartridges as case property
contained in three separate sealed parcels concerning FIR No. 390/96 under
section 13 D..A. O., 391/96 under 13-DAO and 396 under section 13 DAO all
FIRs of Clifton PS and 141 crime empties of different bores.
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