Investigative report on Hakim Saeed’s murder probe

Hakim Muhammad Saeed, former governor of Sindh from 1993 until 1996, was assassinated on October 17, 1998 while he was on his way to attend a medical experiment at the Hamdard Laboratories. Mr. Saeed was remained governor of the province in Benazir’s regime.

Accusations:

After the assassination of Hakim Saeed, Nawaz Sharif held a press conference and in which he framed Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the murder of former governor Sindh. Premier Nawaz had also named some party workers and sitting electable too. CCPO Karachi of that time, DIG Farooq Amin Qureshi nabbed Karachi-based MQM workers over the murder charges.

In the same year of Hakeem Saeed killing, MQM’s convicted activist, Saulat Ali alias Saulat Mirza had also unveiled to Joint-interrogation-team that his party was behind Hakeem Saeed murder. At that time, it was the major breakthrough in the murder case and no one could assess either it was scripted JIT report or not.

Fasih Ahmed, an MQM activist was arrested over murder charges and within 6 hours he was killed in police custody. According to postmortem, the cause of Fasih’s death was severe torture. There were at least 30 external injuries on the body of 26-year-old Fasih Jugnoo who was brought dead to the JPMC from CIA centre.

Dawn: November 29th, 1998 — Mubashir Ali, another suspect, who was suspected by police for arranging the travel abroad of two of the suspects in Hakim Said case, died in police custody. When the Dawn staffers visited the victim's home in Akhtar Colony, it was found ransacked with personal effects scattered all over the place. A wailing Nazeeran, 28-year-old wife of Mubashir and mother of his four children - three boys (Rifaqat, Waqas and Khurram) and one girl (Aashi)-told Dawn that it had been ransacked by at least 20 policemen, many of whom had entered the house by scaling the walls.

On September 4th, 2010 — News emerged that a letter likely to point to the murderers of Hakim Saeed has been allegedly recovered by Scotland Yard from the house of slain MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq. Later on, MQM chief Altaf Hussain had alleged that Pakistan’s civilian agencies – IB and FIA had provided ‘misleading information’ to SLY.

Disclosures:

On July 22nd, 2010 — Former chief IB, Colonel Iqbal Niazi disclosed in a private TV show program that MQM was not involved in the murder of Hakim Saeed. He added, Rana Maqbool falsely implicated MQM’s men in this murder probe.

The former chief minister Sindh, Liaquat Ali Jatoi had also ruled out the involvement of MQM in the murder case of Hakim Saeed.

Finally after sixteen years, Supreme court of Pakistan acquitted three MQM workers (Mohammed Amirullah, Imran Pasha and Mohammed Shakir alias Shakir Langra) with prejudice in the murder case of Hakeem Muhammad Saeed due to lack of evidences.

The last speech of Hakim Saeed:

On October 17th, 1998 — the same day he was assassinated, Hakim Saeed lashed out feudal landlords and politicians in strong words. He added, those should be gunned down who are looters and saving money in foreign countries.

Mr. Saeed said, feudal landlords and politicians are running drug dens in the country.

According to reports, Hakim Saeed was about to disclose the corruption of Nawaz Sharif. He had published the debt’s list of Nawaz Sharif industries.

On October 28th, 1998 — Central Information Secretary of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI), Agha Riazul Islam has blamed that Hakim Said was murdered by a Raiwind based private intelligence agency set up by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Endorsing the MQM statement that “Sharif Mafia not MQM killed Hakim Saeed.”

The question is; who could be the beneficiary of Hakim Saeed’s killing, if MQM didn’t eliminate him. Mr. Saeed was the nemesis of feudal landlords and corrupt politicians. Do you believe that real perpetrators will be behind the bar and Hakim Saeed will get justice?

Published in the XReports.net, on April 27th, 2014