GENEVA: “We express our outrage and condemn in the strongest terms the ambush and killing of Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti”, stated four United Nations human rights experts* today. Mr. Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs, was the cabinet’s only Christian minister and was gunned down today in broad daylight as he travelled to his office in Islamabad. “This is not only an attack on an individual, but also an attack on the rights of all religious minorities and on human rights in Pakistan. Minorities and those who work to promote…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 02 March 2011. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
