KARACHI. Sept 8: A Pakistan! judge presiding over the trial of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's husband died of a heart attack today, police said, reports Reuter

Wajahat Hussain Siddiqi. 62. was the second judge try Ing Asif AH Zardari to dte in recent months

In June unidentified gunmen shot and killed Judge Nabtr Sher Junejo with two bodyguards as he drove through Karachi

Last month, gunmen also killed a senior police ofBcer Investigating cases against Zardari, who Is charged with a number of offences including extortion and conspiracy to murder his wife's political foes.

Zardari has been in Jail since being arrested last October, two months after Benazir was ousted as Prime Minister by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on disputed charged of misrule and abuse of power.

Senator Iqbal Haider, a Karachi leader of Benazir's Pakistan People's Party, called Siddiqi's death "God's wrath."

Siddiqi, a special Judge of an anti-terrorist court, was trying Zardari on charges of extorting money during his wife's 20-month rule. The case was due for hearing today.