Pakistani prosecutor in Musharraf case shot dead in Islamabad

Published May 03, 2013

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD –  Police say the Pakistani government's lead prosecutor in a case involving former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been shot to death.

Police officer Mohammed Ishaq says Chaudhry Zulfikar was gunned down Friday morning in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, as he was driving to court.

Ishaq says Zulfikar was investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun and suicide attack in 2007.

Government prosecutors have accused Musharraf of being involved in the murder and not providing enough security to Bhutto. Musharraf was in power when she was killed and has denied the allegations.

Ishaq says Zulfikar was also involved in a case related to the 2008 terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. The attack was blamed on a Pakistan-based militant group.

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Pakistani officials say US drone kills 3 militants

Published March 22, 2013

Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan –  Two Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone targeting a vehicle has killed three suspected militants near the Afghan border.

The officials said Friday two missiles fired from an unmanned American drone hit the vehicle in a bazar near the Datta Khel village of North Waziristan tribal region at about midnight Thursday.

They said the nationalities and identities of the slain men were not known as their bodies were beyond recognition.

No Pakistan government or army spokesmen were available for comment.

Pakistan opposes such strikes.

Covert American CIA drone strikes have killed scores of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban men in Pakistan's tribal region over the past few years. The secret nature of the program makes it difficult to determine how many civilians are being killed.

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