Was Bhutto killed before Hanging?

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Re: Was Bhutto killed before Hanging?

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This account does not match with Colonel Rafi’s book “Last 323 days of Bhutto”, except for the part that he did not walk on his own feet but was taken (not on strecther) by couple of guards holding his feet and hands. Rafi was in charge of Bhutto’s Death Cell during his captivity and his book is quite a well written book without any bias. He told it like a 3rd party observer. A must read I must say.

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Col Rafiuddin’s instance on the matter**

In his book Last 323 days of Bhutto, Lt-Col (retd) Rafiuddin writes in the chapter ‘The Last Moments’ that Mr. Bhutto’s hanging was carried out according to
orders and he does not mention any incident of torture or the presence of an unnamed “high military official” on the occasion. He writes that Mr. Bhutto was carried on a stretcher from the death cell to the gallows on the orders of the jail superintendent.
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Begum Nusrat Bhutto’s reaction for Col Raffiuddin’s instance**

After the publication of this book by Jang Publishers in October 1991, Begum Nusrat Bhutto talked to a group of journalists at her residence in Islamabad.
According to the report of this discussion published in Daily Jang Lahore, on Dec. 12, 1991, Begum Bhutto described the book as a “pack of lies.” She said she could not say why Col. Rafi had tried to distort the facts. Mr. Bhutto, she believed, according to what she said was authentic evidence, was already dead when he was hanged.
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Zia Government clarification**

A news item in The Pakistan Times of September 20, 1979, reads:-

“Mr. Bhutto was hanged to death in accordance with the law and was not tortured to death, a spokesman of the Punjab Prisons Department said in Lahore.
“If Begum Bhutto or anybody else had any doubts about the cause of death of Mr. Bhutto they could go and get the body examined by any number of doctors they liked, both Pakistani and foreign, to know the cause of death which, of course, would be by breaking of the neck.”