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Assassinated Pakistan Official Supported Religious Tolerance

For the second time in two months gunmen assassinated a Pakistani politician who wanted to change the country's controversial blasphemy laws, a historic and fundamental assault on the kind of Pakistan the politicians died trying to create: a country of moderation and religious tolerance. Shahbaz Bhatti, the minority affairs minister and the only Christian member of the cabinet, was driving from his mother's house in Islamabad when gunmen pumped more than 20 bullets through the door and...Full Story
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