Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s Christian minorities minister, assassinated in Islamabad
Pakistan’s federal minorities minister, a Christian, was gunned down in the capital city Islamabad, March 2, 2011, in the second killing this year of a senior government official who had spoken out against the nation’s stringent blasphemy laws.
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The blood-stained car of government minister Shahbaz Bhatti who was killed after he had vowed to defy death threats following the murder of another politician opposed to an Islamic blasphemy law.
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