Murtaza Bhutto

MURTAZA'S KILLING FINDINGS TO BE MADE
PUBLIC: BHUTTO
ISLAMABAD, Sep 26, 1996: Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday said
the government has constituted a high-powered judicial committee to probe
into the killing of her brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto and assured that the
findings will be made public.
Which will tell whether the killing was accidental or planned," she told the
mourners at Prime Minister House gathered to offer fateha for the departed
soul and condole with her on the death of her brother. The Prime Minister
said, she thought the killing of Murtaza was a pre-planned conspiracy. In this
connection, she referred to the press statements of some people suggestive in
nature that the country would have crisis in September and October.
She questioned if Murtaza's was not a target killing, then how did it happen
that he was hit in the head? The Prime Minister said she had information of
pamphlets saying that some of the opposition parliamentarians were feared
to be killed by the supporters of Murtaza Bhutto. This propaganda, she said,
"was meant to divert her attention from the security of my brother." "I gave
instructions for the security of opposition parliamentarians but lost my own brother,"
Ms. Bhutto added. She said she could differentiate between those who killed
her brother and the genuine police force.
Ms. Bhutto said the inquiry committee will probe into the killing of Murtaza
which, "will expose the affiliations of the killers." She said, "the exploiters who had
taken the country to the verge of being declared a terrorist state, who had sent army to
Karachi and who ruined the peace of Sindh are spreading such rumors." Ms. Bhutto
said these people talked about the government comprising technocrats. "What
kind of government of technocrats - - one compromising country's position on CTBT,
nuclear issue and Kashmir issue?" she said and added, "but democratic
government will never do it."
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