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India-Pakistan
JIT questions Saulat Mirza
2015-04-16
[DAWN] Members of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) questioned death row prisoner and former Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) worker Saulat Mirza in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Machh jail on Wednesday.

Security was beefed up in and around Machh jail in view of the JIT members' visit.

A 10-member JIT investigated Mirza for six hours. A Machh jail officer, who did not want to be named, told Dawn.com that Mirza was shifted from his death cell to the Jail Superintendent's office for questioning.

Following the questioning, Mirza was shifted back to his cell, the officer said. The investigating team then travelled to Quetta amid tight security.

Mirza had levelled serious allegations against MQM chief Altaf Hussain
...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu...
, Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad and MQM leader Babar Ghauri in a video broadcast hours before his scheduled execution on March 19.

Following the broadcast that changed the country's political atmosphere, President Mamnoon Hussain had extended Mirza's execution.
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