PREFACE This book is based on the events, news reports, and enquiries right after the unfortunate murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto. I have collected this information from different sources including leading English, Urdu and Sindhi newspapers, different magazines and some web sites. The part that I have tried to cover is mostly the few months’ right after the murder. You will see some very conflicting statements issued by the police officers and the contradiction between their statements given to different media personal at different occasions and the change in their statements before the tribunals. There is no doubt in any one’s mind that Bhutto family, who has served the natoion most, was eliminated by conspricy. Shaheed Mir Murtaza was the third victim of this conspricy. His eldest sister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the only ray of hope of the demoralized Pakistani nation was also murdered in December 2007. I will leave upto the reader to make the judgement on who was behind the murder of Bhuttos and who would benefit from eliminating Bhuttos. Even though I have tried to put the events in chronological order but you may find some events out of order and you may also find some grammatical errors because while translating either from Urdu or Sindhi I tried to keep the theme of the news in place. Please feel free to send me your comments to add in the next edition of this book. Sani H. Panhwar 4128 W. 163rd Street Lawndale, CA 90260
[email protected] Murtaza Bhutto; Copyright © www.bhutto.org 2 MURTAZA BHUTTO Like his elder sister, Benazir, Murtaza Bhutto was a novice to active politics until 1978 when his father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was sentenced to death by the Lahore High Court.