Dr MUSSADIQ Khan, the principal of the Rawalpindi Medical College, has clarified a news story, “Rawalpindi doctor relives father’s fate”, carried by Dawn in its Monday edition.

Dr Mussadiq denied having said that Benazir Bhutto had been killed by the “force of a blow as her head hit a lever on her car’s sunroof”. He said the report had only outlined the findings of a “clinical examination” of Ms Bhutto’s wound, and not what caused the wound itself.

The report said the cause of death was “an open head injury with depressed skull fracture, leading to cardiopulmonary arrest”.

The portion of the Reuters news story objected to by Dr Mussadiq Khan had said: “Like the government, Dr Khan has said Ms Bhutto was killed by the force of a blow as her head hit a lever on her car’s sunroof when a suicide bomber set off explosives.”