According to a Baaghi TV report, the families of the victims of the Karachi air crash have raised doubts over the credibility of Karachi University and demanded that the samples be sent to labs in Punjab instead.
The families held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, regarding the crash at Model Town Colony, led by Arif Iqbal and Ghazal Baig. Arif Iqbal said that all the crash bodies have been given to the families and only two bodies remain. I lost my wife and three children in the plane crash. There was no focal person and I myself made a video in response to which a team from Punjab contacted me and arrived but they received no cooperation.
Arif Iqbal said that after sending the samples he got a call from Cchipa and Edhi, that the bodies of the children have been found. There were multiple claimants to one body and so much mental pressure that anyone who did receive a body would be thankful. I suggest that those who got bodies based on the samples of Karachi University should get a retest of DNA because their results cannot be trusted.
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He said that one of the bodies was of his brother Mirza Waheed, and my mother went to provide the DNA sample. To this day my mother is suffering from severe depression. We had identified my brother’s body by 25th May and could not identify the others without DNA testing. Yet we did not receive his body till 26th May and then they refused to give us the body we had identified and gave it to some other family. We tried to get another DNA test for the body.
He further said that Karachi University did not guide us at all. We sent samples to Punjab for testing on a self-help basis and discovered that according to those results they were giving our body to someone else. They will finish all DNA samples in 50 days. We ask that they be sent to labs in Punjab for testing. There is still no sign of Ahmed Mujtaba’s body. To this day the families of the victims of the Air Blue crash have not received DNA reports.
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On the other hand, Director ICCBS (International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences) Karachi, and Coordinator General COMSTECH Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhary, has said that the delicate process of identification of the burnt bodies of the victims of the crash had been carried out by SFDL (Sindh Forensic DNA and Serology Laboratory) Karachi meticulously and accurately with international standards. Throughout this tragedy the role of the Sindh Forensic DNA Laboratory has been analysis whereas sampling, coding, tagging, and the delivery of bodies to families has been under the aegis of the medico-legal department.
The SFDL Incharge Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed and other officials were also present. While expressing his dismay at the statements of some individuals who do not understand the issue and the groundless accusations levelled during DNA testing discussion during a talk show on a private TV channel, Professor Iqbal Chaudhry said that some specific elements are running a media smear campaign against Sindh’s first forensic DNA laboratory. The duty to identify the burnt bodies of the victims had been granted to this modern laboratory. He said the laboratory received all the samples under the supervision of a police surgeon directly from the medico-legal team.
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Dr Isthiaq Ahmed said that the Punjab Forensic Science Agency unnecessarily and without permission from top officials interfered in the research matters. Their team suddenly visited the SFDL and illegally demanded the samples and case records, which the SFDL could not have provided, and they illegally took the samples. They then ignored the basic analytical rules and therefore their results cannot be considered as accurate.
He said the Sindh Forensic DNA Laboratory is in possession of all the analytical records and can prove the accuracy of its analysis.
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