July 04, 2007	Wednesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 18, 1428

ISLAMABAD, July 3: The Supreme Court has directed the doctors of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) to submit a reply within a week as to why they failed to prepare an accurate autopsy report of Kafila Siddiqui, a Canadian national, sources said.

Supreme Court senior judge Justice Javed Iqbal while holding a hearing into the suo motu notice in his chamber here on Tuesday said that there were anomalies in the autopsy and chemical reports of Ms Siddiqui.

Justice Iqbal also ordered submission of the medical report of former Minister of State for Communications Mohammad Shahid Jamil Qureshi within a week, and that if he was stable then he should be taken into the police custody for seeking his remand.

The doctors of Pims cardiology department informed the apex court that the ECG report of Mr Qureshi was normal when he was brought to the hospital from the Shalimar police station after complaints of chest pain on the night of June 23.

They said the condition of Mr Qureshi was stable at that time, but he repeatedly demanded that he should be shifted to the Armed Force Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi.

The sources said that one of the doctors in the medical board that was constituted in Karachi on the direction of Sindh government to conduct second autopsy of Ms Siddiqui, had left the board, stating that he was not competent enough to be its member.

The second autopsy on Ms Siddiqui’s body, which is schedule for Wednesday, will be carried out after appointing some other doctor to the board, the sources said.

The medical board will conduct autopsy on Ms Siddiqui’s body to ascertain the cause and time of her death, they added.

The sources said Assistant Superintendent of Police Shalimar Muqadas Hayder and investigation officer sub-inspector Mansha Hussain were to leave for Karachi on Tuesday to take part in the process of exhuming the body and carrying out the second autopsy, likely to be held at Jinnah Post Medical Centre, Karachi.

But due to the Lal Masjid crisis they could not leave Islamabad.

Ms Siddiqui died under mysterious circumstances on June 9 at a house in G-11/3, which she shared with former state minister of communications Shahid Jamil Qureshi.

Brothers of the deceased, Mustafa Qayyum and Mujtaba Qayyum, took their sister’s body to Karachi where she was buried in Shah graveyard in North Karachi on June 10.