“SHAHEED SHAH NAWAZ BHUTTO WAS MURDERED BY A DEEP CONSPIRACY”

Shaheed  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto  was hanged by Gen. Zia  under a false murder case and it was the moral and legal duty of the leadership of Pakistan People’s Party  to reopen the  said false case  whenever the party comes into power and likewise the PPP was bound to reopen the case of Shaheed ShahNawz Bhutto’s murder case to bring the real causes of their  murder Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto first, come into power in 1988 and later on in 1993.  Miss Benaizr Bhutto remained twice in power but she never once tried or even indicated to reopen or order for re-trial of the said cases.

Miss Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after she had compromised with Gen. Zia and agreed to contest elections announced  by the dictator and the murderer of her father and forget  her father and brother’s murder cases. Miss Benazir Bhutto remained in power as the Prime Minister of Pakistan and strange enough that the persons involved in the murder of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto  were her allies in the government  and till-date such persons are with here in her  power politics  .  Benazir  has not only forgotten the murder of her father and brother but she has forgotten her blood relations with them.  The whole  world is aware of the fact that Gen. Zia  implicated  Z.A. Bhutto  in a false, fabricated case and very shamelessly  murdered  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto  under the garb of Justice  where as  in fact it was a clear-cut  murder of an innocent person.  Quite contrary  to the murder of  Z.A.Bhutto the conspiracy  hatched up to kill shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto in  a foreign country. When Gen. Zia  declared Martial  law in the country and announced fresh general elections Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sent me to Larkana to  supervise  his election campaign  in his constituency. I remained busy in Larkana  to supervise the said election campaign where as Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto  sent my younger sister Miss. Sanam Bhutto and my younger brother Shah Nawaz Bhutto  to England  to complete  their education where as Benazir  Bhutto had completed her education  she remained  in Pakistan . Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto  advised me to take on years leave from my studies and I very willingly obeyed  his order. Later  on during the said election campaign Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto visited  Larkana  or  September  16,  for the last time and changed  my mind  and asked  me to leave  Pakistan and go abroad.  Shaheed Z.A.Bhutto asked me to leave Pakistan immediately and  assigned me duty i.e. to visit Muslim countries  and meet the heads of those countries  who were his personal friends and give them his message. He  also told me to join his studies and when I told him that  I had  already taken once year leave form my studies  he was insistent  that I should immediately resume  my studies  the moment my said political   assignment was completed . On March, 1978 the Lahore High Court pronounced its judgement awarding death sentence to Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto  I and Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto decided to return to Pakistan and informed Benazir Bhutto  of our decision but Benazir forbid  us from coming to Pakistan and informed  us that Shaheed Bhutto  strictly prohibited  us from returning to Pakistan and asked both of  us  to remain abroad and do whatever was possible and play  their role in this regard. Following the Lahore High Court’s decision on the Instruction of  Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto I and Shaheed Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto  along with some comrades from Pakistan  embarked upon  our campaign on the international level. So that we contact  leader , people  of Arab, European and African countries  to create conditions  so that  world opinion  could influence  and put pressure to change the  said decision  of the Lahore High Court. My  brother , myself  and our other comrades  toured the East , West  and various other countries  including Middle -East  etc .etc.  and met all the important personalities  of these countries to develop public opinion to influence Gen.Zia  to change his decision to hang Shaheed Bhutto  our such an endeavour was  first and unique in the history.   I  and Shaheed Shah Nawaz  Bhutto remained busy in our set mission. The people of Pakistan did whatever  was possible to save their beloved leader shaheed Z.A.Bhutto.  But Gen. Zia had decided  otherwise  and he did  everything  so shamelessly and cleverly that peoples efforts as well as our efforts could not yield any positive result and shaheed Bhutto  was  a great national tragedy befell upon the people of Pakistan and the country and a most popular  and beloved  leader of the people and of the people was taken away from them by the acts of tyranny and excesses of a dictator Gen. Zia.  On  April 1978 when a news was broken throughout the world that Z.A.Bhutto  was hanged  I  and Shah Nawaz  Bhutto  were in London  Pakistanis residing  in London and elsewhere in England others started coming to us and joined us in offering Fateha for the deported Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto  and this practice continued for months and people from all over the world joined us in prayers for Shaheed Z.Abhutto.  Later on I and Shah Nawaz Bhutto along with our party’s comrades and workers  who were present in London began consultations regarding the process of  usurping of people’s rights and the murder of democracy and the murder of their beloved leader and we also discussed  the ways means to struggle  against  Martial Law  and the tyrant Gen. Zia  who had unleashed tyranny on the people of Pakistan  we all were of the opinion  that  we had no options but to wage war against  the tyranny  of Gen. Zia  and the rule of Martial Law  and to restore democracy  in our beloved land. It was  very difficult for us to struggle  the restoration  of democracy and fight against  the usurpers because we had  to contact with the genuine workers who were living in Pakistan.  Therefore , we decided to come to Afghanistan  within  two weeks I and Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto planned to go to Afghanistan . We opened  our office  in Kabul and after completing all the arrangements we commenced our  struggle . We  began  establishing communication with  those  workers who were ready to make sacrifices for the said cause and struggle  and we both the brothers along with  our comrades started  struggle against Marital Law  of Gen. Zia . During our struggle  we had contacts only with the Afghan government  but few locals genuine friends  also joined us in our struggle  during this period. During our struggle  shaheed Shah Nawaz  and I married girls from an Afghan family. During this period the interference of  soviet union in Afghanistan  was very visible and later on the Soviet  forces entered Afghanistan. As  Afghanistan was brought under the influence of Soviet Union  a very important question arose  i.e. should we continue our said struggle while remaining in Afghanistan or not? . We came  to the conclusion that if the Soviet Union did not interfere in our struggle  and we could  only have relations with Afghan Government than we should continue our struggle remaining  in Kabul.  The Soviet Union government never interfere  in our affairs but slow and steedy the Afghan Government began its interference in our affairs and also tried to create rift and disunity among our workers and we could not tolerate government’s  tactics because we were never agent of any one nor under any pressure we were ready  to become an agent of any power. I and Shah Nawaz  with the consultation of other party comrade  decided to leave Kabul  because our  struggle was only  to restore democracy in Pakistan  and to get rid of Gen. Zia’s  Martial Law  we were clear mind  to preserve our independent thinking and left Kabul and in sept 1982 Shah Nawaz Bhutto myself and other party workers reached Damacus , Syria. When we shifted to Damascus from  Kabul there occurred certain changes in our family leaving in Pakistan . My mother begam Nusrat Bhutto was suffering from Lung Cancer and during the summer of 1983 she shifted  to France for her treatment and started staying  in a rented flat . Miss Benazir Bhutto, in 1984  during  her self-exile stayed  in London. In the beginning  of 1984 my mother  Begum Nusrat Bhutto called all  her sons and daughters  to assemble in France. Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto and I reached France from Damascus. We also started residing in the city in a rented flat . In the month of July we all  waited for the arrival of Miss. Benazir  on July 17th, 1985. Shaheed Shah Nawaz  and I brought our entire family to our rented flat before the dinner where Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto held a tea-party for all of us. At the end of the  tea-party we left for the dinner at the beach. After the dinner I and my wife accompanied my mother and Benazir to leave them to my  mother’s flat.  Shaheed Shah Nawaz took permission and instead of accompanying  us left for his flat as he was tired for making arrangements for  the dinner as he was the host and wanted to take rest. I , Begum Sahiba and Benazir discussed  various matters till late night at Begum Sahiba’s flat. As it was too late I decided to sleep on a sofa  in the drawing room. On July 18.1985 we while taking our break-fast I was going through menu purposes  Shah Nawaz’s wife  came to the flat  at 11. am  and said  “ I  don’t know what has  happened to Shah Nawaz  you  come with me”. I and Nasir Hussain rushed to his flat and I directly  entered the bed-room of Shah Nawaz but nobody was there in the room. I rushed to the drawing room and there I found the body of  Shah Nawaz  lying at the floor. There I saw  that Shaheed’s feet were entangled in the glass of a central table  and his face and shoulders were  half  lying on the sofa. I, immediately touch his body and felt that I was all cold and I discovered  expired . I directed Nasir Hussain  to call immediately the police and  also ambulance.  I at once rushed  to the flat of my mother and brought my mother and Benazir  to the flat of Shah Nawaz . Shah Nawaz’s death was a great tragedy  after the Shahadat of Z.A Bhutto . This was the tragedy and great loss which could never be compensated.  Here it is necessary  to mention that   the drawing room every thing  including chairs table etc etc.  were in topsy turvy  and other items were scattered all along the floor. The chest and neck of Shah Nawaz were  having blue  and black scares and there was a sign of a big cut causing a visible and noticeable  wound. The skin of his neck were full of broses and scars. We found that all the files, cassettes and other  important documents were disappeared  but no costly items  were missing even the jewellery  , among money and costly Rolex watch which was fixed on his rist was  not taken away by the intruders. Shaheed brother’s body was taken  for post-mortem . The report of the French Police and four different reports of the post mortem   did not  reveal any proof except that a hair in his nose  contain traces  of some kind of poison. About  the nature of the said poison it is believed  that  this poision  is prepared by herbs mixed with some chemicals. It is also said that the said poison when enters into the blood it kills a person but leaves no sign or trace of the cause of death. The poison is supposed to be  used  by the agents of  Israel  to kill its enemies  and this was proved on an internationally. This proovs that in the drawing room where Shah Nawaz Bhutto breathed his last the said poison was entered into his  body  force and torture. As mentioned above it was observed  that the deep cut on his neck was due  injecting the poison through  a needle by force. Besides the French  police investigation  report  discloses  that  Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto  a victim of  physical torture.  The cups and sauceres of tea and coffee were cleaned by cloths so that finger prints were left on them . The above mentioned sign give ample  proof that Shaheed Shah Nawaz’s  murder was a well-planed and conspired political murder . It is believed that the killers  of Shaheed Shah Nawaz  could be Gen. Zia’s agents in Afghanistan and they could  be the agents of Israeli government. However, Shah Nawaz Bhutto’s murder was the result of a deep conspiracy. I, once again appeal to the present government  to contact French  government  for the complete investigation  of Shaheed Shah Nawaz Bhutto’s murder case. So that our  true facts regarding our brother’s murder were brought before the people of our country. I  very vehemently appeal to  Miss. Benazir Bhutto  and her government  to reopen the  case of Shaheed Z.A.Bhutto and in the dispensation of Justice.

By Mir Murtaza Bhutto on July 1995)

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