Benazir murder case: FIA prosecutor shot dead in Islamabad

Ali was scheduled to appear in an anti-terrorism court Rawalpindi today, pertaining to Benazir murder case.


Reuters/web Desk May 03, 2013
Special prosecutor for the FIA Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali. PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali was murdered in an attack on Friday, Express News reported.

Ali was investigating the Benazir Bhutto murder case.

Gunmen on a motorcycle pumped 12 bullets into Ali as he left his home in Islamabad, sources told Reuters.

According to the initial post mortem report, 14 injury marks were present on his body. He was shot in his head, arm and chest.

A Dawn.com report stated that the firing incident also killed a woman and injured Ali’s guard Rehman Ali. The guard was reported as saying that the attacker’s only intended target was Ali who had been receiving threats since a while.

Ali was scheduled to appear in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi today, pertaining to the Benazir murder case.

Ali was also the prosecutor investigating the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people were killed.

COMMENTS (67)

shameen hussain | 10 years ago | Reply

sooooooooooooooo sad.ths iz vary sad moment for us

Analyzer | 10 years ago | Reply

@expaki: One almost never hears about the culprits in the first assassination in our nation... that of Khan Liaqat Ali Khan. After his death democracy was forced to fail and dictators ruled the Pakistani landscape. After removing the elected prime minister from office through murder, the feudals tried to marginalize the Bengalis. As a result of the conspiracy the constitution was abrogated and the military-feudal complex took over Pakistan. The feudals and their sentries the army took over the reins of the country and never let go.

That, my friend, is when the ship started sinking.

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