Murtaza Bhutto

"It is now up to the court or the tribunal to decide whether the fire was made
by a friend or a foe for such an inquiry does not fall under my or the board's
jurisdiction," he added.
Answering a question, he said, since he was a private practitioner he was
under no governmental or any other pressure and the help he had extended
in the course of inquiry was based on the cardinal principles of medicine.
A largely expanded special medical board which examined ASP Shahid
Hayat Khan at the Services Hospital on Monday had reserved its findings for
presentation to the tribunal of inquiry set up to investigate the killing of
Murtaza Bhutto and others near 70 Clifton 11 days ago. The board which
completed its inquiry under the chairmanship of Prof. Karim Siddiqui, head
of the surgery department, Dow Medical College, arrived at the unanimous
conclusion that it was not a self-inflicted injury and the police official was
fired at from a distance of four to five feet.
Earlier, a six-man special medical board had declared unanimously on
Thursday that the fire-arm injury received by the Clifton SHO, Haq Nawaz
Sial, in a shooting near 70 Clifton, was "self-suffered." The SHO died in
mysterious circumstances on Saturday morning.
The inquiry team, which was headed by Shafi Quraishy, professor of
medicine and principal of Dow Medical College, had also maintained that
keeping in view the direction and nature of the wound on the easily
accessible, least dangerous and non-vital part of the body, physical
appearance of the left boot and pants, and radiological findings, it had been
ascertained that the injury was self-suffered. The board for the late Mr Sial
was set up by the health department on the request of Ghinwa Bhutto, wife of
Mir Murtaza.
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