ISLAMABAD (AP) — A hospital official says Pakistan’s government minister for religious minorities has died after being shot by gunmen in the country’s capital, Islamabad.
Asmatullah Qureshi says Shahbaz Bhatti arrived dead at Shifa Hospital in Islamabad after the Wednesday attack by gunmen.
Bhatti was a Christian who had been threatened by Islamist militants in the past because he has spoken out against the country’s harsh blasphemy laws.
Earlier this year, Punjab province’s governor was killed by a bodyguard who said he was angry that the politician opposed the blasphemy laws, which impose death for insulting Islam.
