مرتضیٰ بھٹو قتل کیس: تمام ملزمان بری

اپنی بہن بینظیر بھٹو کے دور اقتدار میں مرتضیٰ بھٹو کا قتل ہوا تھا
کراچی کی ایک مقامی عدالت نے میر مرتضیٰ بھٹو اور ان کے سات ساتھیوں کے قتل کے مقدمے میں نامزد تمام پولیس افسران کو بری کردیا ہے۔ یہ فیصلہ تیرہ سال بعد سنایا گیا ہے۔
مرتضیٰ بھٹو قتل کیس میں یہ مختصر فیصلہ ایڈیشنل سیشن جج شرقی آفتاب احمد نے سنیچر کے روز اپنی عدالت میں سنایا جہاں تمام نامزد ملزم پولیس افسران موجود تھے۔
مرتضیٰ بھٹو قتل کیس میں سے بری ہونے والے افسران میں سابق سربراہ انٹیلیجنس بیورو مسعود شریف، وفاقی ٹیکس محتسب شعیب سڈل، ایڈیشنل آئی جی سندھ واجد علی درانی، ای آئی جی پولیس ویلفیئر سندھ شاہد حیات، ایس ایس پی رائے طاہر، آغا جمیل، عبدالباسط، راجہ حمید، فیصل اور بشیر قائم خانی سمیت اٹھارہ ملزمان شامل ہیں۔
مرتضیٰ بھٹو قتل کیس میں تیئس ملزمان نامزد کیے گئے تھے۔ جن میں سے پاکستان کے صدر آصف علی زرداری اور شکیب قریشی دو ہزار آٹھ میں بری ہوچکے ہیں۔ کیس میں نامزد سابق وزیراعلی سندھ سید عبداللہ شاہ اور انسپکٹر ذیشان کاظمی فوت ہوچکے ہیں جبکہ ایک اور پولیس افسر حق نواز سیال نے مبینا طور پر خودکشی کر لی تھی۔
مرتضیٰ بھٹو پاکستان کے سابق وزیراعظم ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کے بڑے صاحبزادے اور سابق وزیراعظم بینظیر بھٹو کے بھائی تھے۔ انہیں سمتبر 1996 میں کراچی کلفٹن میں ان کی آبائی رہائش گاہ کے قریب ایک پولیس مقابلے میں سات ساتھیوں سمیت قتل کیا گیا تھا۔ مرتضی بھٹو کے قتل کے وقت ان کی بہن بینظیر بھٹو پاکستان کی وزیراعظم تھیں۔ بعد میں ان کی حکومت ختم کردی گئی تھی۔
مرتضیٰ بھٹو قتل کیس کراچی کی ماتحت عدالت میں تیرہ سال زیرسماعت رہا۔ اس دوران پاکستان کی کئی حکومتیں اور متعلقہ عدالت کے جج تبدیل ہوتے رہے۔
مرتضیٰ بھٹو کی بیوہ اور پیپلز پارٹی شہید بھٹو کی سربراہ غنوی بھٹو نے تاحال اپنا باقاعدہ ردعمل ظاہر نہیں کیا ہے مگر ان کے وکیل بیریسٹر عمر سیال کا کہنا ہے کہ عدالت سے تفصیلی فیصلہ ملنے کے بعد وہ اعلی عدالتوں سے رجوع کرنے کا فیصلہ کریں گے۔

THE BLACK DAY 5TH DECEMBER 2009

Court acquits all accused in Mir Murtaza murder case

A local Karachi court exonerated the accused in the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his seven associates, Geo News reported Saturday.
The accused including former chief of Intelligence Bureau Masud Sharif, Federal Tax Ombudsman Shoaib Suddle, Additional IG Sindh Wajid Ali Durrani, AIG Welfare Shahid Hayat and SSP Rai Tahir and other police officials appeared in the court of Additional Session Judge Aftab Ahmed amid heavy police deployment around the Karachi City Court premises.
Police denied media access to the court.
The court in its short order, acquitted all the nominated accused in murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his seven aides.
Two other accused nominated in the same case i.e. Asif Ali Zardari and Shikeb Qureshi were absolved in 2008; while, two other accused former Sindh Chief Minister Abdullah Shah and Inspector Zeeshan passed away during the run of the case.
On hearing the case ruling, some police personnel’s eyes turned wet.
On this occasion, all the officers, avoiding the media, made their exit from the back door.
Talking to media, Umar Siyal said the decision regarding appeal in the higher judiciary will made only after the detailed ruling of the case...

Ghinwa says PPP-SB will resurrect ZA Bhutto’s ideology

Party chairwoman says politics, leadership and ideology are people’s property....!!!
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s ideology was based on the welfare of the masses, in total contrast to the feudal system that predominates, and Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB)’s main aim in contesting the general elections is to bring true democracy in line with this ideology to the people, said the party’s Chairwoman Ghanwa Bhutto.Presiding over the party’s provincial council and senior workers meeting at Al-Murtaza House here on Tuesday, she said it was critical to follow the real principles of ZA Bhutto, who was sincerely engaged in transferring power to the grassroots so that people could attain their fundamental rights. She appreciated party workers’ efforts and said they are the party’s real assets. The workers are responsible for conveying the party’s message to the people so that real democracy can be established, she said.Ghanwa said she was disappointed to learn that some elements within the party held that Fatima Bhutto and Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto Junior were the rightful heirs of ZA Bhutto’s ideology. Politics, leadership and ideology are not anyone’s inherited property, not even Fatima or Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr’s — the real heirs of ZA Bhutto’s ideology are the people, she said.The PPP-SB chairwoman said that when the party becomes equally strong in Punjab, Sindh and other parts of the country, and people rally to make ZA Bhutto’s ideology successful, then Fatima and Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto Jr could lead the party in the “struggle for and with the masses”. Ghanwa said that currently she, along with Fatima and Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto Junior, were party workers and would stand in solidarity with them in the future as well.After general elections, PPP-SB will be reorganised from the union council to the federal level, and conventions will be convened across many districts in the country for this purpose, she said..!!!

...Ghinwa Not Allowed to Meet Nusrat...

Syrian-born Ghinwa Bhutto cannot meet her mother-in-law and widow of executed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Ghinwa is the mother of three childrens Fatima Bhutto,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior and Mir Ali Bhutto. She heads her faction of the Pakistan People’s Party after her husband, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, was assassinated in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, Benazir Bhutto, was the prime minister of Pakistan. After Murtaza’s murder, Nusrat Bhutto was taken ill and was never seen in public.
Ghinwa and Zulfikar Junior, who are currently visiting relief camps for survivors of the Oct. 8 earthquake in the North West Frontier Province, told Arab News that she wanted to meet Nusrat in Dubai but was not allowed to do so by aides of Benazir Bhutto...

...Birthday ceremony of Shah Nawaz Bhutto observed...

The 47th Birthday of Late Mir Shah Nawaz Bhutto the younger brother of Benazir was celebrated, separately, by PPP-P and PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) here on late Monday evening. PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) arranged a cake-cutting ceremony in this regard at Al-Murtaza House L. Ghinwa Bhutto Chairperson of PPP-SB was the chief guest on the occasion. Fatima Bhutto, Sardar Taj Muhammad Domki, Farooq Ahmed Bhutto, Dr. Sikandar Ali Jatoi and other leaders and workers of the Party were present in the ceremony. Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (PPP-P) celebrated the birthday of Late Mir Shah Nawaz Bhutto at Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto Memorial Library, where a 47-pound cake was cut...
and party workers were also present. Meanwhile, A declamation contest was also held on Monday, organized by the Late Mir Shah Nawaz Bhutto Literary Trust (LMSNBLT) Larkana...!!!

Islands’ sale attack on fishermen’s rights...Ghinwa bhutto and fatima bhutto

Islands’ sale attack on fishermen’s rights...Ghinwa bhutto and fatima bhutto....

World Fisheries Day was observed here on Tuesday by the fisherfolk community by holding a big rally with the pledge to continue their struggle for their rights.Holding banners and placards in support of their demands, fisherfolk including women from Karachi coast assembled at the Regal roundabout in Saddar from where they marched towards Karachi Press Club. The participants sang folk songs and chanted slogans. The rally was also attended by trade union leaders, human rights and NGO activists and professionals.Organized by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, in collaboration with other organizations and parties, the rally was led by PFF chief Mohammad Ali Shah and PPP(SB) chairperson Ms Ghinva Bhutto who was accompanied by Fatima Bhutto.Addressing an enthusiastic crowd outside press club, Ghinva Bhutto lauded the PFF’s efforts for uniting fishermen and struggling for their rights.She accused Islamabad of pursuing a global agenda of US imperialism and termed the sell-out of the coastal islands an attack on the rights of fishermen. According to her, it was all being done under a globalization policy to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.PFF chairman Mohammad Ali Shah described the allotment of islands sheer violation of human rights in the name of development. He termed the decision an injustice with local fishermen who would not only be deprived of their land but also their livelihood.Mr Shah said this decision would have far-reaching impact not only on natural resources, such as mangroves, but also the ecological system of the area.The rally was also addressed by Haji Shafi Mohammad Jamote and others....

Liberty groups unite to defend UK rights

Writers, pop stars, lawyers and politicians from across the party spectrum yesterday issued a call to arms. They joined the largest ever campaign across Britain to warn of the erosion of freedoms and the emergence of surveillance techniques....!!!!

The government and the courts are collaborating in slicing away freedoms and pushing Britain to the brink of becoming a "database" police state, a series of sold-out conferences in eight British cities heard yesterday.
In a day of speeches and discussions, academics, politicians, lawyers, writers, journalists and pop stars joined civil liberty campaigners yesterday to issue a call to arms for Britons to defend their democratic rights.
More than 1,500 people, paying £35 a ticket, attended the Convention on Modern Liberty in Bloomsbury, central London, which was linked by video to parallel events in Glasgow, Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Manchester, Cardiff and Cambridge. They heard from more than 80 speakers, including author Philip Pullman; musicians Brian Eno and Feargal Sharkey; journalists Fatima Bhutto, Andrew Gilligan, Nick Cohen and Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger; politicians Lord Bingham and Dominic Grieve; a former director of public prosecutions, Ken Macdonald; and human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy.
In her speech Kennedy said she felt that fear was being used as a weapon to break down civil liberties. "There is a general feeling that in creating a climate of fear people have been writing a blank cheque to government. People feel the fear of terrorism is being used to take away a lot of rights."
She said that voters were anxious that their communities were 'being alienated' by the use of powers designed to protect national security being applied outside their original remit, and that there was now an open window of opportunity for the electorate to make their feelings known to government before the next election: "People are fearful of the general business of collecting too much information about individuals."
High on the concerns of the convention were the recent allegations against the British security services by Guantanamo Bay torture victim Binyam Mohamed, plans for ID cards, DNA collection databases and controversial surveillance powers being used by civil servants. In addition, concerns were high over Government plans to create a database of all the communciations and movements of ordinary people as well as the profileration of anti-terrorism laws including detention of suspects.
The Conservative MP David Davis, who resigned from the shadow cabinet in order to fight a byelection on a civil liberties platform, gave the final keynote speech of the day. He told the Observer that he believed the danger of a police state was a very real one and that justice secretary Jack Straw was leading a "piecemeal and casual erosion" of freedom in this country. "There has been a tide of government actions which have put expediency over justice time and time again. The British people wear their liberty like an old comfy suit, they are careless about it, but the mood is changing. Last year 80 per cent of people were in favour of ID cards, now 80 per cent are against. There's a point of reflection that we are reaching, the communications database which is planned to collect every private text and phone call and petrol station receipt will create uproar."
That people had paid £35 a ticket to attend such an event was a real sign that people were waking up and getting irritated by the threat, he said. "We are getting on the way to becoming a police state and the surest thing I do know is that by the time we are sure we are, then it will be too late."
Britain's judiciary came under fire from many speakers. The courts were accused of helping quash free speech by a panel of leading journalists who agreed that libel law was being manipulated by "dodgy characters" from all over the world who sought legal redress against valid investigative journalism in UK courts.
"Most of this is hidden from public view," said Alan Rusbridger who complained that British lawyers fees were 140 times as expensive as in the rest of Europe, creating impossible dilemas for journalists on newspapers already suffering from dropping sales and advertising revenues.
London Evening Standard journalist Andrew Gilligan said the planned database would bring an end to privacy and with it "an end of journalism". He pointed out that in the whole case around the illegal shooting to death by police of Brazilian student Jean Charles de Menezes, the only arrest was that of a journalist who revealed that police statements of the event were untrue.
The Observer and Vanity Fair writer Henry Porter, who co-organised the conference, said he felt tremendously moved by the support shown by everyone who had attended the event or agreed to speak. "I had been feeling like the lone lunatic wandering around Oxford Street with a placard and it's tremendously moving for me to see how many people share my concerns. The number of tickets, I'm told, could have been sold two or three times over. That has to show people really are thinking about these frightening issues quite seriously."
The Convention on Modern Liberty, sponsored by the Rowntree Trusts, openDemocracy, Liberty, NO2ID and the Guardian, was launched as an umbrella campaign last month under the statement of purpose: "A call to all concerned with attacks on our fundamental rights and freedoms under pressure from counter-terrorism, financial breakdown and the database state."
Yesterday's gathering was by far the largest civil liberties convention ever held in Britain and it was held a day after a leading UN human rights investigator attacked Britain for "undermining" the rights of its citizens. In an advance copy of a report to the UN Human Rights Council, Martin Scheinin said so-called 'data mining' blurred the boundary between the targeted observation of suspects and mass surveillance.
Scheinin, the UN's independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, also questioned the use of spy software that analyses people's internet postings to create profiles of terrorists....

Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case

Benazir didn’t answer her phone, Asif disconnected the line....

When Ghinwa Bhutto received news that her husband, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, had been shot, she immediately rang the then-prime minister (and her sister-in-law), Benazir Bhutto; the latter, however, did not answer her phone. Ghinwa Bhutto then called Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who picked up the phone but disconnected the line without hearing details of the incident, said Rao Imran Ashfaq, a reporter of an evening newspaper, while testifying as a defence witness in the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his six comrades.Ashfaq was testifying in the court of Additional District and Session Judge (ADSJ)-East Aftab Ahmed Khan on Saturday, where he was summoned as a witness of two accused police officials, Shahid Hayat and Rai Mohammed Tahir. A police official, Inspector Haider Ali, also testified as a defence witness of the accused.The reporter said that he received this information from a servant of 70-Clifton, Noor Mohammed, who he met at Mid East Hospital where Murtaza Bhutto was taken. Mohammed is also the complainant in the case. Ashfaq said that according to Mohammed, Murtaza’s daughter Fatima Bhutto received a call about her father’s death, after which Ghinwa Bhutto made the calls. Ashfaq said that he received information on the night of September 20, 1996 between 10pm and 10.30pm that Murtaza Bhutto and his companions had been shot dead near 70-Clifton. He immediately rushed to the hospital, where he met various personnel, including Noor Mohammed. It was Mohammed who briefed Asfaq about the incident, and told him that he heard gun shots around 8.45pm, while the gates of 70 and 71-Clifton were shut. The reporter also produced the copy of the newspaper in which he had reported the entire conversation with Noor Mohammed.When Deputy District Public Prosecutor (DDPP) Mazhar Qayyum asked Ashfaq if he reached the site of the incident, he replied that he only reached the hospital. When asked if he confirmed the information provided by Mohammed, he replied in the negative. Another defence counsel, Adam Bin Jaffery, asked if media personnel were present at the scene of the incident, to which Ashfaq said that a large number of journalists had gathered at the hospital. When asked if any police official created hindrances, he again replied in the negative. The second witness, Inspector Haider Ali, told the court that he was posted at Nabi Bux Police Station at the time of the incident. He was directed to head towards Mid East Hospital, where he was posted at the main gate. Later, the sub-division magistrate (SDM)-South ordered him to drop Mohammed back to 70 Clifton. While on their way, he asked Mohammed what had happened and where was he (Mohammed) at the time of incident. Mohammed told him that he was at Murtaza Bhutto’s residence when he heard the gunshots. Ali also told the court that his entire conversation with Mohammed was reported to the SDMs. When asked if his statement was recorded by any police official, he said that Ali Gohar Mithani and Hussain Asghar had examined him.After hearing the testimonies of both witnesses, ADSJ-East Khan adjourned the hearing till November 19, when arguments will be heard from both sides.While proceedings were taking place, supporters of Murtaza Bhutto thronged the court’s corridors in large number but they were prevented from entering court premises. High security alert was declared in the court, and stick-wielding police officials were called to guard the premises. After the conclusion of proceedings, the supporters entered the court room to inquire about the next date. Later, they started sloganeering against President Asif Ali Zardari and the police officials, and demanded that the accused are sentenced to death....

Fatima Bhutto breaks her silence, questions Benazir's will, Bilawal being the PPP chief

Fatima Bhutto (25), the niece of slain ex-Pak premier Benazir Bhutto and the daughter of the latter's younger brother (Late) Murtaza Bhutto, has severely criticised the installation of her cousin Bilawal Zardari Bhutto as the PPP chief, saying that he was not the right choice by any standard.Hinting at the possibility that Benazir's will, one which was put out before the world by Asif Ali Zardari was the fake one, she said if there was any such will why so much time was being taken to make it public. "I think at some point the will should be made public, if indeed there was one," she reportedly said in an interview with the London Times.Breaking her silence in her first interview after Benazir's assassination, Fatima, a newspaper columnist said that the way Bilawal was anointed at the helm of PPP's affairs, it gave the impression that the party was facing dearth of leadership. She also averred that by simply adding the surname "Bhutto" didn't make Bilawal the real Bhutto needed by the Pakistanis.Fatima said that neither she nor her 17-year-old brother (Bilawal) were the rightful heirs. She added that the issue was whether Bilawal was a suitable choice, given that by law he must wait another six years to run for Parliament - and 16 years to stand for the prime minister. "Ultimately the party workers believe that nobody can head the party but a Bhutto, but I don't think the workers believe that on whomever you put the Bhutto name can lead," The News quoted her as saying in the interview with the London Times.Castigating those around Bhutto-Zardari family, she further said: "They seem to be a party in a hurry and they seem to be desperate to cash in on her (Benazir's) blood. There was a certain coterie around her that benefited richly from her government and they plan, it seems, to benefit richly from her death as well."Fatima, who is seen to be having quite a few similarities with her aunt, also rejected her own claim to the Bhutto legacy, calling for a new era of politics based on platforms rather than personalities. "That's the problem - it's a field that's held hostage by so few and it's become in a sense the family business, like an antique shop, where it's just 'So and So and Sons' and then grandsons and great grandsons. It just gets handed down," she said....!!!

Fatima Bhutto learning the art of politicking..!!!

Though slain former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto’s niece Fatima Bhutto has said she does not want to take the plunge into politics, she seems to be learning the art of politicking fast.
Fatima’s cousin Sassi, the daughter of Benazir’s second brother Shahnawaz -- who was found dead in France when he was 27 -- is visiting Pakistan, reportedly at Fatima’s invitation, and there are talks that Fatima is trying to reorganise factions of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Fatima, who has been critical of Benazir’s son Bilawal taking over the PPP mantle following his mother’s assassination in December last year, has established contact with senior politician Elahi Buksh Soomro and sought his cooperation in reorganising the party.

Her spokesman Inayat Bhatti has, however, brushed aside reports that the young Bhuttos were planning to launch a new version of the PPP or that Sassi is on a political visit to Pakistan. “Its Sassi’s right to visit her country anytime and go to any place,” Bhatti told reporters when asked why Sassi had never visited the country earlier.

The invitation extended to Sassi is surprising because even though Fatima and Sassi’s mothers are sisters, Fatima has refused to have any connection with her biological mother Fauzia or any link with Sassi. Since the age of five, Fatima has lived with her stepmother Ghinwa and has often talked about how Benazir persuaded her biological mother to return to Karachi to seek parental custody after her father’s death.

“It was just vulgar and crude,” Fatima often said of her meeting with her biological mother. “I was in biology class in ninth grade. Then the principal came and said, ‘There’s a woman here who claims to be your mother’.” Fatima said she locked herself in the nurse’s office as the press swarmed outside.

A few years later, Fauzia launched an unsuccessful court bid for custody and then returned to the US....

Investigations Stopped in Murtaza Bhutto murder case

Sunday, September 13, 2009
By Shamim Bano

Karachi

The investigation into the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto was temporarily stopped on December 16, 1996 after suspension orders were served to AIG Noor Mohammed Pacheho who was conducting the investigations into the case FIR No 386/96 and 399/96.

This was disclosed by Noor Mohammed Pacheho in the court of Additional District and Session Judge East Aftab Ahmed Khan on Saturday during the case proceedings. Pacheho, who retired as a SSP in the year 2007, was conducting investigations into the case which started on October 10, 1996, adding that he continued it till he was suspended.

He deposed before the court that he had no records after December 16, 1996, neither had he appeared before any tribunal nor he recorded any statements. However he narrated the details of investigation he carried out, since he received orders of IG Sindh through DIG Crime branch to interrogate the accused.

From November 9 to December 16, 1996, he interrogated many accused allegedly involved in the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto. In his initial inquiry, which started in the month of October 1996, he said that a constitutional petition was filed by the widow of Mir Murtaza in the Sindh High Court in an FIR 386/98 which was lodged by a servant of Murtaza Noor Mohammed at Clifton Police Station.

Initially, investigation in this case was given to the SSP South AD Khawaja which was shifted on November 16 to Pacheho who was given an assignment for the arrest of accused ex-IB Chief Masood Sharif by DSP Agha Mir Ali. He flew to Lahore to get the transit remand of Sharif. On November 17, he obtained remand of Sharif from local court and recorded the statements of Ishaq Khakwani and Noor Mohammed, the complainants, along with other four prosecution witnesses in an FIR 399/96 lodged in Clifton police station.

Ex-IB chief Masood Sharif was sent on remand to judicial custody on November 19 till November 23. He also recorded the statement of Abdul Khaliq Soomro. On Novewmber 22, Pacheho interrogated one of the accused Shoib Suddle, ex-DIG Karachi and Masood Sharif and also submitted an interim charge sheet in an FIR 399/96 in the STA(Suppression of Terrorists Activities) (Special Courts) Act 1975, which were later abolished.

He also obtained remand of accused, the then SSP Wajid Ali Durrani, while on November 25, he told the court Bungalow No 4 of Minister Enclave was declared as sub-jail by the government of Sindh and Durrani was detained in this sub-jail. .

On November 27, 1996 he attended the proceedings in Sindh High Court tribunal headed by former Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid and on November 30, Masood Sharif was also detained in sub-jail along with Wajid Ali Durrani as per notification of Home Department of Sindh.

On December 2, the bail applications of the accused Agha jamil and others were rejected by the Sindh High Court. On the same day, pre-arrest bail of Shoib Suddle, Shahid Hayat and Rai Tahir were rejected by the Sindh High Court who then moved to Supreme Court and were granted bail.

On the same day he informed that Shabbir Qaim Khani and Agha Jamil were arrested by Inspector Mamraiz Khan from outside the SHC and their remand was taken by him on the same day

On December 3, he constituted an inquiry team comprising two members Inspector Saeed Tariq and Altaf Hussain for interrogation. The statements of the prosecution witnesses were recorded following day.

He flew to Islamabad on December 7 in connection with the application filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan for confirmation of bail applications. On December 8, statements of Dr Mazher Memon and other were recorded.

On December 10, he interrogated Wajid Ali Durrani and Masood Sharif and issued a letter to SSP south asking about the details of arms and weapons issued to ASP Rai Tahir, Shahid Hayat and Faisal Hafeez. On December 11, Pacheho attended the proceedings of SHC regarding the bail before arrest application of former late Chief Minister Sindh Syed Abdullah Shah from Judicial Magistrate South. On December 14, he attended the proceedings of Supreme Court where bail applications of DIG Shoib Suddle, Rai Tahir and Shahid Hayat were heard.

On December 16, he attended the SC and SHC proceedings for the bail application of the accused. At this time he was crossed by the defence counsels of the accused to name the accused but he replied that he submitted a letter in the court which has names in it. On the same day his services were suspended through an order was issued by the Sindh government to stop the investigations. Pacheho maintained that since then he had no clue about the case.

The defence counsel insisted to produce the copy of statements he recorded in the court. The court however adjourned the hearing till October 3, after Eid.


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