Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali had been receiving death threats from unknown suspects for some time.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The special prosecutor in former Pakistan
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto s murder case has been shot dead, police
say.
Gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at the car of Federal Investigation
Agency prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfizar Ali near GPO chowk at 7.30am.
Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, who was driving, was hit by several bullets
and lost control of the car. The vehicle hit a woman crossing the road
and she too died later in hospital.
His bodyguard, Frontier Corps trooper Farman Ali, was injured in the attack.
Zulfiqar Ali was heading for an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi
for a hearing of the Bhutto assassination case when he was attacked, his
son Nisar told the media.
The prosecutor and his bodyguard were taken to the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
Some doctors said he was killed instantly as several bullets had hit him in the face.
The gunmen escaped after the brazen shooting. However, no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
According to relatives, the prosecutor had been receiving threats from a banned extremist group for some time.
His colleagues said he had continued pursing high-profile terrorism cases despite these threats.
