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Pakistan’s Only Christian Cabinet Minister Assassinated Over Blasphemy Row

03/02/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

“Assassins sent by Al Qaeda and the Taliban gunned down Pakistan’s only Christian minister in broad daylight in the heart of the capital Islamabad today.

Shahbaz Bhatti, a 42-year-old Roman Catholic, died after his car was sprayed with bullets in a carefully planned ambush as he drove from his mother’s home.

It was the second assassination in two months of a high-profile opponent of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.” Read more.

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