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then SHO of the Clifton PS, and Asghar Ali, a member of the Mir Murtaza's
party.
The final challan will be on the basis of the FIR of Noor Mohammad which
was registered by the police on the direction of the High Court of Sindh. He
said investigations were not complete and were still going on. The AIG said
his son, Zafar Ali Mithiani, is serving as a DSP and was suspended by the
previous IG of Police but has been reinstated in the same position. The
witness said he was reinstated before his appointment as investigation officer
in the case. He was reinstated without any inquiries against him. Akhtar Ali
G. Kazi also produced a copy of the FIR registered in Larkana on the firing at
Al-Murtaza on Jan 5, 1994.
Earlier, the senior counsel had also been asked to submit before the tribunal a
copy of the report of a judicial inquiry intothe incident in which four people
were killed in police firing at Al-Murtaza in Larkana. He said the judicial
inquiry was conducted by Dargahi Mangi, a district and sessions judge, who
had sent the copy of his report to the government of Sindh which could not
been traced and neither it was published then. On this, the chairman of the
tribunal remarked that he had also conducted a similar exercise in 1994 on the
Shia-Sunni riots in Liaquatabad and it was also submitted to the government
and there was no trace of that too. It was a 153-page report. The chairman
said at the time when he was inquiring into the incident, he wanted to see an
earlier report by Justice Dr I. Mahmood, which was also not available.
Khwaja Sharful Islam suggested to the tribunal that the written arguments
might be allowed to be filed which would save the time of the tribunal as well
as the counsel's and the documents might become part of the record, to which
Justice Zahid said it was a good idea and if anybody wanted to file written
arguments, he was welcome. The tribunal would start hearing arguments on
Wednesday at 11:30 am.
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