Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Pakistan’s Only Christian Cabinet Minister Shot Dead in Islamabad

Assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaeda and the Taliban killed the only Christian member of Pakistan's federal cabinet Wednesday, spraying his car with bullets outside his parents' driveway. It was the second assassination in two months of a high-profile opponent of blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-only-christian-cabinet-minister-shot-dead-in-islamabad/article1926178