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The Tragic Death of Murtaza Bhutto On the night of Thursday 19th September 1996, the estranged brother of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the only surviving son of the Martyred Lion of Sindh Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Mir Murtaza Bhutto was shot dead along with 6 other party activists in a police encounter near his residence. Among the dead was Aashiq Jatoi, the acting provincial chief of the Pakistan Peoples' Party (Shaheed Bhutto Group). He was a brother in-law of Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. The injured list included six Party activists of Murtaza Bhutto's party and three policemen, including additional Superintendent of Police of Saddar area of Karachi and two other station house officers. Just before his death Mir Murtaza Bhutto, 42, had slammed the government, warning it not to arrest him without warrant. "There would be trouble if the Police try to arrest me without a warrant," he had declared. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto rushed to the city when told about the encounter. Begum Nusrat, mother of Murtaza, was in London. As expected the version of the encounter given by the injured party activists and the polce widely differed. The police earlier claimed that they reached the residence of Murtaza Bhutto, 70 Clifton, at 8:30pm, to arrest him. The policemen alleged that the security guards belonging to Murtaza, stationed at his house, opened fire, injuring several policemen. The fire was returned by the police party, which caused fatal injuries to the Prime Minister's brother and his supporters. Sources said that after the incident the Rangers again cordoned off the area and searched the house number 70 Clifton. Murtaza was sought by the police on the charge of inciting attacks on two CIA Centers on Tuesday where it was thought that his party activist Ali Sunara was detained. A Sindh government handout issued late in the night said that Murtaza Bhutto s vehicle was allowed to proceed to his residence by the SHO Clifton after it was stopped. The gunmen of Mir Murtaza Bhutto sitting on the land Murtaza Bhutto; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 6
cruiser vehicle resorted to indiscriminate firing injuring the ASP Saddar, SHO Clifton and a person in a taxi on the spot. Mir Murtaza Bhutto's gunmen sitting in his vehicle also started firing straight at the police. The police under the command of ASP Drakshan and ASP Saddar retaliated in self-defence and after an encounter of 20 to 25 minutes, took control of the situation. On the other hand Dr. Mazhar Memon Senior Vice President of the party's Hyderabad Division blamed the police for opening fire on Mir Murtaza Bhutto without any provocation. "We were returning from a public meeting at Surjani Town, District West of Karachi, when the police and Rangers stopped near the 70 Clifton," Dr. Memon told at the JPMC casualty Department. He said that Mir Murtaza Bhutto came out of the car to talk with the official. The policemen suddenly opened fire on Murtaza, seriously injuring him. Dr Memon said, "I also came out of the vehicle to help my injured leader who was on the ground and I received a bullet on my leg." Dr Memon added that when Murtaza's guards saw him on the ground in a pool of blood, they rushed out and opened fire on the police. Mir Murtaza Bhutto raised his hand in the air, urging the police to hold the fire. The policemen ignored Murtaza and continued firing. Memon added that when the firing died down, the Rangers who were on the spot jumped out from their vehicles. Some eyewitnesses said that Murtaza after getting out of his car challenged the policemen to shoot him. A man was seen struggling for his life after being hit by police fire in front of DIG police residence. The firing continued for half-an-hour. The firing caused great panic in the area. Soon after the incident when newsmen rushed to the Hospital they were beaten up by highly charged policemen. The personnel of the law-enforcement agencies snatched the cameras of photographers and cocked their guns. One of the police officers ordered his force to open fire at journalists should they ignore his orders and advance. Later some of policemen who had stopped Murtaza Bhutto's vehicle claimed that they did not know whose car they had stopped. They said that they Murtaza Bhutto; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 7
Page 2 and 3: PREFACE This book is based on the e
Page 4 and 5: Murtaza and Shahnawaz both cut shor
Page 8 and 9: could not have opened fire on the m
Page 10 and 11: DIFFERENT NEWS ITEMS RIGHT AFTER TH
Page 12 and 13: does not treat medico-legal cases.
Page 14 and 15: BENAZIR VISITS MID-EAST HOSPITAL KA
Page 16 and 17: NO COMMENTS FROM BENAZIR & NUSRAT O
Page 18 and 19: MURTAZA'S SUPPORTERS CLING TO THE C
Page 20 and 21: BULLET HITTING NECK WAS FATAL KARAC
Page 22 and 23: MURTAZA'S BODY TAKEN TO 70 CLIFTON:
Page 24 and 25: IGP POLICE ORDERS ENQUIRY KARACHI,
Page 26 and 27: GRIM SITUATION IN LARKANA LARKANA,
Page 28 and 29: NA CONDOLES DEMISE OF MURTAZA ISLAM
Page 30 and 31: ARRANGEMENTS TO DISPATCH BODIES OF
Page 32 and 33: occurred at the hands of police. He
Page 34 and 35: SON & BROTHER OF ELECTED PRIME MINI
Page 36 and 37: Anwer Pirzado Writes It was the gri
Page 38 and 39: HUNT FOR SONARA’S CLOSE ASSOCIATE
Page 40 and 41: MIR MURDER FIR AGAINST BB, ZARDARI
Page 42 and 43: POLICE LEFT VICTIMS DYING ON THE RO
Page 44 and 45: MEDICAL BOARD TO EXAMINE CLIFTON SH
Page 46 and 47: told me about the Palestinians and
Page 48 and 49: PLOTS TO FINISH OFF BHUTTOS STILL O
Page 50 and 51: TEN INJURED AS POLICE, RIOTERS CLAS
Page 52 and 53: PM, ZARDARI INVOLVED IN MURTAZA'S M
Page 54 and 55: PM ASKS FOR A HIGH LEVEL FIA PROBE
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TEN INJURED AS POLICE RIOTERS CLASH
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SHO’s FOOT WOUND- SELF INFLICTED
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COMPLETE STRIKE OBSERVED IN KARACHI
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PM HOLDS A MEETING WITH TOP OFFICIA
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MURTAZA'S KILLING FINDINGS TO BE MA
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GHINWA TO MOVE SHC TO GET CASE REGI
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SUSPENDED: KARACHI, Sept 25, 1996:
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PPP (SB) CALLS FOR STRIKE TODAY KAR
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action against the police officials
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Mir Murtaza Bhutto and others, and
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equest in this regard. However, the
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other benefits as Sial was about to
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present state of social, economic a
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SELF-INFLICTED INJURIES PAKISTAN'S
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arrows. But having gone through a l
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acquired in the last couple of year
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SIAL'S DEATH WAS A CASE OF HOMICIDE
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MEDICAL BOARD RESERVES FINDINGS IN
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SHC HEARS GHINWA, BADRUNNISA PETITI
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ASP HAYAT'S STATEMENT DEEPENS MYSTE
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police party took the entire operat
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The PPP secretary-general said the
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MURTAZA'S DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL, SAY
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SHC HEARS ARGUMENTS ON FIR REGISTRA
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The arguments were continuing when
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The court was about to rise for the
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HOME SECRETARY, IGP, DIG TO RECORD
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ELEVEN COPS HELD IN MURTAZA CASE Mo
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GHINWA VOWS TO UNMASK KILLERS LARKA
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MURTAZA'S KILLERS TO BE BROUGHT TO
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POLICE TAKES REMAND OF 11 COPS IN M
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GHINWA'S LAWYER ACCUSES CM, BABAR,
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Q: Who informed you? HS: I was atte
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Q: In the daily reports of Septembe
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HS: Neither myself nor the home dep
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The DIG then told me that he was be
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IG: No. Q: Are you aware of any suc
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Q: Is it correct that in the two-mo
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The Chief Minister Syed Abdullah Sh
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September 18. To a question, he sai
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Q: When the SSP brought to your not
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A: The orders remained in force exc
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ARGUMENTS ON ISSUE OF THIRD FIR CON
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To another question by the court, M
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EXPERTS MAY EXHUME MURTAZA’S BODY
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INQUIRIES AGAINST POLICE BUT NO ACT
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Q: Who controls the Rangers? A: The
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Q: Is it correct that the raids con
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The tribunal's hearing concluded at
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The DIG said he had given these ins
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The DIG produced the standing order
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DURRANI SAYS SUDDLE OKAYED THE OPER
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According to information provided t
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people named by Ali Sonara as, acco
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"I made it a point to be there much
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A: APC could not have stopped it an
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SHARIF, SUDDLE, DURRANI, 7 COPS NAM
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DURRANI HELD IN MURTAZA CASE By Moh
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TWO ASPS GRANTED INTERIM BAIL BEFOR
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III. That on return from said publi
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SUDDLE GRANTED PRE-ARREST BAIL KARA
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PRE-ARREST BAIL OF SHO ZEESHAN DISM
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CRIME BRANCH INTERROGATING IB CHIEF
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Question from Tribunal: Were you gi
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he has been conducting raids, but n
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Question from Manzoor Bhutta, couns
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DURRANI SHIFTED TO BUNGALOW KARACHI
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Tariq Road; Mohammad Rafique, 26, s
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pulling down late Ashique Jatoi fro
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MURTAZA WAS HOSPITALISED IN CRITICA
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A: For medico-legal purposes we wer
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Tribunal: Why didn't you ask your h
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Bhutta for Dr Memon; and Nadeem Qur
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ALLIANCE: In reply to a question, M
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DETECTIVES HINT AT CONSPIRACY IN MU
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Tribunal: Since when this policy wa
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A: I did neither see any police veh
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Q: When you went to the place of in
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A: I received two reports from the
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Q: On what charges you arrested him
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A: There might be about 10-15 blind
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A: No, I was not among them. Only o
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Another SHO involved in the case, Z
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WE TOOK PHOTOS BY DODGING THE POLIC
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At the end, Justice Nasir asked whe
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At this stage, witness Mohammad Ali
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Q: Who identified Ashiq Jatoi's bod
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A: The SDM, SSP, DIG and other seni
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ackground of his presence at the sc
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MIR HAD LITTLE CHANCE OF SURVIVAL W
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heart revived which is a rare pheno
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A: None. This is the first time tha
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A: I was not told of any such thing
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A: Yes, but till about 2 am to 3:30
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A: The mood of the crowd was anti-p
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HOW SEVEN SDMS COULD FAIL TO FIND T
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said he received the information ab
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with the police and abused them and
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GHINWA RELEASES PARTY MANIFESTO LAH
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I WAS NOT TOLD BY POLICE BEFORE THE
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A: An emotion-charged crowd of 2,00
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The witness, who was in his room at
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lying near a vehicle, which was inj
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HOW 7 SDMS COULD FAIL TO FIND THE D
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not available, when I contacted aga
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time then was about 10:30 pm. There
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FOUR POLICEMEN BROUGHT MIR & LEFT I
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Q: Any reason for not publishing at
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Majeed had registered the complaint
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Another MLO, who was examined earli
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A: The questions were about the bor
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MIR MAY HAVE SURVIVED KARACHI, Dec.
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Q: Do you agree that the post-morte
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ody. On a question from the tribuna
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and victimisation of the PPP contin
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SIAL'S DEATH WAS HOMICIDE: MLO KARA
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A: It was done on Nov 28 after his
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ASIF ZADRARI AND OTHERS PRODUCED IN
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The court directed the police to le
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are non-professionals and unqualifi
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A: I did nothing. Q: What was the p
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authorized by the government. Only
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POSTMORTEM IS PRACTICALLY DONE BY U
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A: Yes. If they are asked to do it
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COURT REJECTS POLICE REMAND FOR ASI
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easily accessible, least dangerous
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Najam, current affairs producer. Th
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"We should have written as you are
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A: There are Prof. I. Jokhio, Dr. Y
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Asghar Ali, a personal servant of M
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MURTAZA CASE: WITNESSES SEEK TIME T
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TRIBUNAL DISSATISFIED WITH MEDICAL
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A. Shah, the SDM, which he denied l
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The counsel for Sharif and Shah sou
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Q: What reasons the two doctors gav
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Chairman: Was that a child's play.
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A: Our professional ethics do not p
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The witness was warned several time
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Q: Was the intention to replace the
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Shafi Quraishy, principal of DMC an
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Q: In your earlier statement before
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Q: Apparently you were told by some
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2. In the process of news gathering
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Q: The second report you signed was
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A: One of the four doctors, Dr Kari
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At that time, he said, he left the
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A: I don't nominate. I ask the addi
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The tribunal started its proceeding
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A: There was equal urgency in this
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A: I did ask them for putting the d
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College from Lahore. But the fact w
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Zulfiqar Ali, who were all posted i
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emergency. Ashiq Jatoi's friends an
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SPOT MEMO WAS NOT PREPARED ON THE S
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A: I made no mention about the pres
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Earlier, Karim Khan Agha, counsel f
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which were kept on record. Many off
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MIR HAD NAMED CONSPIRATORS HOURS BE
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A: During the MRD movement for eigh
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said they should have told him abou
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He had not made entries in the "Roz
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Q: Does Police Rules permit you to
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IO VIOLATED RULES TRIBUNAL EXAMINES
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A: No finger-prints were taken and
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A: He alone can answer that questio
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A: Photographs were not there when
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A: Yes. He had told me that Shukaib
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Q: Yesterday (Tuesday) when you app
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JUSTICE ZAHID ASKS REPORTER'S COUNS
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Chairman: We will also have to look
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Oct. 12 when he was informed by the
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practitioner, Dr S. M. A. Shah, in
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Q: Photographs are normally taken a
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This was because the then DIG Shoai
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office and insisted on the formatio
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UK DETECTIVES WERE PAID 200,000 POU
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A: In the meeting at my office ther
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A: We have no competent people and
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MURTAZA BHUTTO TRIBUNAL PROCEEDINGS
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GHINWA FAILS TO APPEAR BEFORE TRIBU
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CLIFTON KILLINGS SUMMARY OF BRITISH
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Saddar was in the group of officers
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provide some independent evidence a
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MQM government, Ghinwa Bhutto said
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Sarfraz declined to offer any comme
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MURTAZA BHUTTO TRIBUNAL BHATTI TEST
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When Begum Nusrat Bhutto was unjust
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Syrian President's plane and it was
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tribunal consisted of Mr Justice Am
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As for Ms Benazir, she vehemently o
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From then on Ms Benazir built an at
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As it was evident from the actions
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A: During the unrest in Karachi, we
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Naek. She started her evidence in E
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and where. The phone bills of 70-Cl
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She said on Sept 22, the president
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GHINWA HOLDS POLICE RESPONSIBLE FOR
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which "my husband said I am attacki
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Q: Did he tell you that he feared f
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that they had done so under the thr
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AIG PLACES ON RECORD EVALUATION REP
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BENAZIR DENIES HAND IN MIR'S ARREST
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on behalf of the government of Sind
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Q: Was there any animosity at that
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A: I don't read Urdu newspapers. I
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Q: Hakim Ali Zardari was not on goo
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Q: Is it a fact that hot words were
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Nawaz the then C-in-C.To her mind,
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spent on the investigation of the k
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A: I don't know. Q: Is it correct t
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Q: Are you aware that Ali Mohammad
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A 30 bore pistol recovered from Ghu
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asked whether Mir had sand on his s
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TWO SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM PISTOL KA
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A: No. Q: The board constituted to
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answer to this question was sought
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then SHO of the Clifton PS, and Asg
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Out of the nine FIR's registered un
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The counsel said the Clifton police
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FOWZIA SUING GHINWA FOR FATIMA'S CU
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to them let me write a letter to Fa
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father. Then we got engaged and wai
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Fowzia also asked Pakistan Link to
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