Special prosecutor for the FIA Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali. PHOTO: AFP /FILE
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, who was allegedly killed for pursuing the Benazir Bhutto murder case, was buried at his hometown of Kotha Sawaria in Jhelum on Saturday.
No Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) representative or leader attended his funeral, at which senior FIA officials and lawyers were present.
Ali had been persistently pursuing the case, whose list of accused included the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, two police officials and former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
None of the accused were criticised by the PPP leadership during its term in power.
“My father had no personal animosity with anyone as he was a professional lawyer who concentrated solely on his profession,” said Ali’s elder son Chaudhry Nisar.
He said his father was brutally gunned down for aggressively pursuing the murder case.
Nisar, while speaking to The Express Tribune after the funeral, demanded an immediate arrest of the killers, who he said needed to be brought to book.
The funeral prayers were offered under tight security, with a contingent of Jhelum police deployed at the scene.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2013.
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Seems in this game, some big fishes are involved behind the curtain, that'w why this thorough professional and an honest person was removed from scene in such a barbaric way. On the other hand PPP leadership is either too afraid to conduct a fair trial or rather more interested in one liner, "Democracy is best revenge, and we got power, so forget the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Assassination case".