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Key prosecutor gunned down in Pakistan
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Boston Globe/Washington Post


Boston Globe/Washington Post, May 4, 2013
Posted: June 18th, 2013
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/05/04/prosecutor-...

Gunmen shot to death the Pakistani governments top prosecutor ... in a case that accuses former military ruler Pervez Musharraf of involvement in the 2007 assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, police said. The gunmen opened fire on Chaudhry Zulfikars car as he was leaving his home. The assailants escaped. Chaudhry Zulfikar was involved in a number of high-profile cases. Zulfikars slaying was a rare episode of violence in the capital, which has so far seen none of the bombings or other attacks launched by the Taliban against secular politicians. Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan for nine years before going into self-exile in 2008, returned in March in an ultimately futile bid to run for prime minister. He has been under house arrest for more than two weeks, facing allegations in various cases linked to his tenure. In the case unfolding in Rawalpindi, prosecutors allege that Musharraf was culpable for Bhuttos murder for not providing her with enough security. He has denied the allegations. Bhuttos son, Bilawal, who now leads the Pakistan Peoples Party, has alleged that Musharraf was behind it. Proceedings in the case have been bogged down for years, and resumed only recently with Musharrafs return. Speculation was rife ... that Zulfikar was killed to disrupt that case.

Note: It is interesting to note that only weeks before her death in 2007, Benazir Bhutto said in a BBC interview that Osama bin Laden had already been killed. To read quotes from this BBC interview, click here. For a CNN article revealing the Bhutto was planning to give US lawmakers a report on vote rigging on the day she was assassinated, click here. Could it be that the prosecutor in the article above was killed because he knew too much?


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