Bhutto murder-case prosecutor shot dead in Islamabad

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Police said Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali was ambushed as he was being driven from his Islamabad home to a court hearing in the Bhutto case in Rawalpindi.

Police have not speculated on a reason for the shooting.

Chaudhry Zulfiqar was also the top prosecutor in a case related to the attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been accused of failing to provide adequate security for Ms Bhutto at the time of her death.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22392544

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Election violence: 74 killed and counting

KARACHI: Thursday’s bomb blast outside an office of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was the 42nd attack on electioneering since April 11 when the May 11 polls were exactly a month away and the deadly trend, including bombings and armed assaults, has claimed more than 70 lives, including two contesting candidates, and left over 350 injured as both the security administration and caretaker government find it the “most bloody and challenging elections” of Pakistan’s history.

It is already looking like one of the worst waves of pre-election violence in the country’s history.

However, with less than 10 days left, the authorities sounded confused and divided in their opinion over the origin of threat, the motive behind the brutal trend and what exactly lies ahead when the mainstream parties claim to have restricted their election campaigns and others express mistrust of the administration under the caretaker set-up, demanding deployment of army troops inside every polling station.

“Obviously, the situation Pakistan faces today was never witnessed in its history before,” said Arif Nizami, the federal information minister. “So it’s a great challenge for us to hold free and fair polls on time. But you see there are misreporting by the media as well which counts every act of violence or incident under election-related violence.”

http://beta.dawn.com/news/795310/election-violence-74-killed-and-counting

[Ash_F]

1. Pakistan is being torn in two.

This is sad to watch.

[cosmicone]

8. Why is it sad?

Pakistan's woes are self-inflicted by coddling terrorists. Pakistan has been hoisted on its own petard.

Pakistan is terrorism central and not willing to give up its terrorist infrastructure.

[Ash_F]

18. Thanks for adding another uneducated, ugly-American comment to this board.

It didn't have enough already. Your delight in the factional violence and the death of this man, who was trying to find justice for a rare and courageous political leader who was fighting for reform, is duly noted.

You know how in America, there are Republicans and Democrats? You know how there was a Union and a Confederacy? Believe it or not, other countries also have this strange phenomenon where two different people can have two different opinions on a subject. Sometimes there can even be a third opinion and so forth.

Seriously, thanks for making DU suck.

[karynnj]

19. I don't know if he is American

Nearly all his posts are similar to this - absolute hatred of Pakistan with the recommendation that it be split into many small pieces.

[Ash_F]

20. Some amount of Balkanization may be a viable option for peace, though not without problems.

But it doesn't sound like this person knows anything about it or cares. It would be a lucky shot in the dark for them.

[cosmicone]

22. There is no hatred of Pakistan

only its terrorist policies. Only die-hard Pakistan sympathizers see my posts as hatred.

I have traveled to Pakistan numerous times and the people there showed me great hospitality. Most of them want peace and get away from the terrorist apparatus Pakistani military has created under Zia-ul-Haq and Parvaiz Musharraf.

I stayed in the Karachi home of a columnist for "The Dawn", a leading Pakistani newspaper and his views were identical to mine.

See post No. 21 as well.

[cosmicone]

21. Why such hostility?

Even though I was not born here, I have lived in the US most of my life and have been a naturalized citizen for several decades.

I have traveled extensively in Pakistan and India and I have seen the systematic destruction of democratic institutions and embrace of terrorism in Pakistan. I didn't show any delight in the death of the person -- I only stated that it was not sad but expected in a country that has unleashed military sponsored terrorism all over the world.

You may see Benazir Bhutto as "courageous" but she was one of the most corrupt politicians in Pakistan and was instrumental in providing nuclear technology to North Korea. In a kill or be-killed doctrine inside Pakistan, she got killed. If she had fired first, someone else would have been killed. Her election as PM would not have stopped terrorism, corruption or Pakistani military's terrorist machinations around the world. It would be naïve to think that she was some sort of a saint who would have been a panacea for Pakistan. Study her previous terms as Prime Minister of Pakistan and if she succeeded in anything close to a reform.

Lastly, just because someone else has a different opinion than yours doesn't make that person ignorant. Sometimes, the person whom you call ignorant may have first hand knowledge of the facts and doesn't write from a media-created portraiture.

[Ash_F]

23. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Have a good day.

[jimmil]

2. Seriously..

The police have not speculated on the reason for the shooting... seriously???

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Not in public

and, since there are at least 2 groups of suspects (Musharraf supporters, and the group that carried out the Mumbai attacks), you can see why.

Remember the prosecutor in Texas who got shot? There were suspicions it was white supremacists, but it turned out to be the wife of an ex-judge he'd prosecuted.

[Blue_Tires]

4. ttt

[geek tragedy]

5. I hope the US and India are practicing their drill

for seizing Pakistan's nukes when it goes the way of Afghanistan and Somalia.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Yeah, that should go well.

[geek tragedy]

7. A failed nuclear state leaves no good options. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. Despite the turbulence, I don't think Pakistan is close to being a failed state.

Democracy may falter, but the military always looms.

[geek tragedy]

16. That assumes the military won't itself fall prey to infighting, nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

17. I haven't seen much sign of that. The military takes care of itself.

[closeupready]

9. lol - have you enlisted yet?

[geek tragedy]

10. Huh? If Pakistan implodes, someone's gotta secure those nukes.

It would probably be mostly India's people on the ground, since they would be the most likely target of those nukes.

[closeupready]

11. So, YOU do it.

You go secure those nukes, armchair warrior!

[geek tragedy]

12. Nonsensical argument.

Like arguing that people who want to increase the size of the fire department should practice running into burning buildings.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Wonderful image. Thanks, we needed that. n/t

[closeupready]

14. lol, I can't stop laughing -

really suits a lot of the warhawks around here, IMO.