RATODERO/KARACHI: As a result of seven month agitation of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), Sindh government has decided to send viscera of JSQM chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi to UK for analysis to ascertain the cause of his death.
Following the directives of provincial government, the Health Department of Sindh has constituted a 14-member Committee comprising of the experts to process the transport of specimen of deceased Bashir Ahmed S/o Ghulam Murtaza Qureshi to re-analysis in the LFC Forensic Lab, United Kingdom (UK). “The committee is required to complete the process of transportation within two days 5th & 6th November, 2012 at 9:00 am in office of the Director, CB Lab Karachi, Block-2, Services Hospital, M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi,” the official letter dated October 31, 2012 issued by secretary health Aftab Khatri said.
The committee consists of Prof. Umer Memon (Chairman), Head of Forensic Medicine Department, Dow International Medical College Karachi, and member: Prof. Hassan Mehmood, Head of Pathology Department, Sindh Medical College, Karachi; Dr. Ghulam Ali, Head of Forensic Medicine Department, Sindh Medical College, Karachi; Prof. Kartar, Head of Pathology Department, Dow Medical College, Karachi; Prof. Ashraf Khaskheli, Head of Pathology Department, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro; Dr. Akber Kazi, Head of Forensic Medicine Department, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro; Prof. Murtaza Pathan, Head of Pathology Department, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University Larkana; Prof. Ghulam Qadir Kaheri, Head of Forensic Medicine Department, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University Larkana; Dr. Abdul Khaliq Abro, Head of Pathology Department, Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College, Sukkur; Prof. Anwar Ali Akhund, Head of Pathology Department, Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences, for Women, Shaheed Benazirabbad; Dr. Ghulam Sarwar Pirzado, Head of Department, Forensic Medicine Department, Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences, for Women, Shaheed Benazirabbad; Police Surgeon Larkana; Assistant Police Surgeon Larkana and Convener/Director, C.B Lab Karachi.
Sindh government had also constituted a 15-member committee of forensic experts previously that was headed by same person who heads the new committee, but the JSQM had rejected it being dissatisfied with it.
Sticking to the demand of conducting the analysis of viscera by international experts, JSQM believed that its leader was poisoned to death using most modern and sophisticated method. It could be a slow-poison given by shaking hands or through food or water or by any other means.
According to JSQM, Dr. Umar Memon, head of forensic experts’ committee himself had admitted that they are lacking required equipment. Moreover, there had been different reports of change in number of jars containing the viscera. They had also not taken viscera from the heart and lungs of Shaheed Bashir Khan.
Meanwhile, talking to PPI on phone, Dr. Niaz Kalani, Vice Chairman, JSQM, appreciated the move however said the government should take into confidence the heirs of Shaheed Bashir Khan and arrange sending some members of heirs of late leader along with forensic experts’ team to UK.
He said JSQM had been demanding analysis of viscera abroad since the death of Bashir Khan.
It may be recalled that Bashir Khan died early April this year at Sakrand town of Nawabshah district on the way from hometown Ratodero to Karachi.
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