Karachi - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a lawyer defending Pakistan's ousted prime minister, Mr Nawaz Sharif, against a possible death sentence in a daylight attack on his city-centre offices yesterday.
Police and witnesses said Mr Iqbal Raad, a leading member of Mr Sharif's defence team, died from a volley of bullets to his chest. An office assistant and the visiting son of a High Court judge who were in the premises were also killed.
The Pakistani military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, called the killing "a dastardly act of terrorism".