Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s Christian minorities minister, assassinated in Islamabad

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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.

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. FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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