Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali, the state attorney in a number of cases surrounding power and the reputation of the government in Pakistan, was shot 13 times Friday on his way to the bail hearing for former president Pervez Musharraf, and his death aises questions about just who can challenge the status quo by law in the country.
Returning to the country he once ruled to face his critics — and possibly prison — former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf found at least one countryman who wasn't happy to see him.
Pakistan has never forgiven former president Pervez Musharraf for the death of former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, and now it plans to ask Interpol to arrest him for failing to protect her from the deadly 2007 suicide attack that took her life.
The former Prime Minister will return from overseas despite charges he helped assassinate Benazir Bhutto, and amid escalating tensions between government and military leaders.
Nearly four years after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi, police and Taliban are charged with her killing.
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