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Bhutto murder case prosecutor shot dead in Islamabad | Bhutto murder case prosecutor shot dead in Islamabad |
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The special prosecutor in former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's murder case has been shot dead, police say. | The special prosecutor in former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's murder case has been shot dead, police say. |
Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali was seriously injured by attackers on a motorcycle in the capital, Islamabad, and later died from his injuries, they said. | Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali was seriously injured by attackers on a motorcycle in the capital, Islamabad, and later died from his injuries, they said. |
At least one other person was reportedly killed in the shooting. A police investigation is now under way. | |
Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. | Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. |
Sprayed with bullets | |
Police say Mr Ali was driving to the anti-terrorism court for a hearing on Friday morning when his car was ambushed. | |
The attackers on a motorcycle then sprayed the car with bullets. | |
Mr Ali was badly injured and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. | |
A woman pedestrian was also killed and Mr Ali's bodyguard was injured. Earlier reports suggested two people other had died. | |
The incident happened in G-9 sector of Islamabad, where the prosecutors lived. | |
Mr Ali was the special public prosecutor of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) in several cases. | |
He was also the top prosecutor against a number of Lashkar-e-Taiba activists being tried in Pakistan for their role in the deadly bombings in India's city of Mumbai in 2008. | |
In 2007, the Pakistani authorities blamed the Taliban for Ms Bhutto's assassination in the city of Rawalpindi. | |
Several officials, including former President Pervez Musharraf, were later accused of failing to provide enough security for Ms Bhutto after she returned from exile. | Several officials, including former President Pervez Musharraf, were later accused of failing to provide enough security for Ms Bhutto after she returned from exile. |
A UN inquiry in 2010 found that her murder could have been prevented. | |
Mr Musharraf - who dismisses the accusations as politically motivated - is currently under house arrest over the assassination. | |
Mr Ali's killing comes less than two weeks before Pakistan's national elections. |