On October 5th, I described the process by which prosecutors pile on charges to make their cases more serious.

CNN: House Judiciary Committee hearing,

They do this to make a case look more serious or foreboding.

CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2

On Wednesday Judge Asif Saeed Khosa adjourned the case against Mr Ashraf until 8 August after the attorney general, representing the government, asked for more time to make "serious and genuine efforts" to resolve the impasse with the judiciary.

BBC: Pakistan judges give PM two more weeks to pursue Zardari