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| Daily News Brief May 3, 2013 |
Top of the Agenda: Pakistani Prosecutor Investigating Bhutto Assassination Murdered
Gunmen
shot dead Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, the prosecutor investigating the 2007
assassination of Pakistan's ex-leader Benazir Bhutto, in an ambush in Islamabad (Dawn).
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has been accused of failing
to provide adequate security for Bhutto at the time of her death, and
was placed this week under two-week house arrest over charges that he
conspired to murder her (Reuters).
The former army chief, who has denied responsibility for Bhutto's
death, returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of
self-imposed exile to contest the May general election. He has since
been banned from politics.
Analysis
"The killing of a top prosecutor of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has brought into focus the complex security situation in Pakistan.
While the killers are not yet known, the timing is such that fingers
are being pointed at various quarters, including a couple of Jihadist
organisations and even the secret agencies," writes M Ilyas Khan for the
BBC.
"Though Pakistan has experienced repeated violence, it's rare for such an attack to happen in the capital,
which is home to high-ranking government and military officials,
diplomats and international aid workers," writes Munir Ahmed for the
Associated Press.
"[T]he
Musharraf affair will be an early test of which direction Pakistan's
civilian politicians and judiciary intend to take their country and its relations with America.
If Musharraf's old foes can deliver justice instead of vengeance, all
would benefit. So far, however, evidence suggests otherwise: This will
be a messy, perhaps even bloody, business that will damage relationships
(civil military and U.S.-Pakistan) that were already bound to be
fraught," writes CFR's Daniel Markey for Foreign Policy.
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