Last words cause upset
NZPA-Reuter Islamabad A Rawalpindi magistrate has fixed a hearing for today into a lawyer’s claim that a British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent, Mark Tully, and a “Financial Times” of London correspondent, Chris Sherwell, gave false reports about the last moments of the former Pakistan Premier, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged on; Wednesday. The lawyer, Habibal Wahab El-Kheri, has complained: about the correspondents’ re-1 porting that Mr Bhutto’s!
last words on the gallows had been, “Lord help me, for I am innocent." Such a quote puts Mr Bhutto in a better light than the Government would like people to see him and could become politically embarrassing to the regime of General Zia Ul-Haq. In Lahore, capital of the Punjab, three retired Supreme Court judges said lin a statement that they i were shocked by “the - : malicious campaign being : carried out by the 8.8. C. and • the Western news media I against Pakistan."
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Press, 7 April 1979, Page 6
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155Last words cause upset Press, 7 April 1979, Page 6
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