Pakistan: 4 Arrested in Killing of Judge’s Aide

By SALMAN MASOOD
Published: May 31, 2007
The police arrested four men in the killing of Syed Hammad Raza, who worked as the chief of staff to Pakistan’s suspended chief justice. The interior minister, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, said the four belonged to a gang of robbers from Kashmir and shot Mr. Raza when they broke into his house in Islamabad on May 14. The police, who said they had recovered the gun used in the shooting and a stolen watch, maintained from the start that the killing was robbery-related. Mr. Raza’s wife denied there had been a robbery attempt and termed the shooting politically motivated because of Mr. Raza’s close association with the suspended justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.