Pakistan’s Minorities Minister Assassinated

Pakistan’s minister for religious minorities was gunned down today in the country’s capital, AP reports. Shahbaz Bhatti, himself a member of the country’s Christian minority, had been threatened by Islamic militants in the past for calling for reforms of the country’s strict blasphemy laws, which impose the death penalty for…

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Pakistan’s Minorities Minister Assassinated

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