Murtaza Bhutto

PM ASKS FOR A HIGH LEVEL FIA PROBE
KARACHI Sep 24, 1996: Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has ordered high
level FIA probe into the killing of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and seven others.
According to latest reports, nine bullets hit Mir Murtaza’s car, seven hit Mir
Murtaza. One bullet passed through his neck and proved fatal.
The government of Sindh asked doctors on Tuesday to help investigate the
killing of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's brother, amid accusations that
police shot him in cold blood.
It said in a statement a medical board has been set up at the request of
Murtaza Bhutto's widow Ghinwa to look into allegations that there was no
exchange of gunfire between police and Murtaza's bodyguards when he was
killed on Friday.
The statement said doctors would examine a policeman hurt in the incident to
see if the “wounds purported to have been suffered by the policeman are selfinflicted
or otherwise.” The medical board is to report its findings within 24
hours.
Meanwhile reliable sources told newsperson that ASP injured in the cross
fire who is under treatment in Agha Khan hospital Karachi refused doctors
to examine the wounds and SHO injured in the cross fire bears the wounds
like caused by knife have created doubts of so-called police encounter. But
within next 48 hours a report from the newly formed medical board would be
presented to the Sindh Government and the prime minister.
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