Shahbaz Bhatti feared for his life - was now the only Christian in the Pakistan government of radicals shot on the streets. The minister for religious minorities had campaigned against the blasphemy law - Taliban boast of the murder. He looked down in recent weeks and days. Last Friday, Shahbaz Bhatti said in a briefing session with World Daily Buzz, he was worried for his life.
"We are fighting against the oppression of religious minorities in Pakistan, but we must be careful. The threats are increasing." Between the lines he made it sound that he is losing the support of his own government. "It is not easy," he judged his work. Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, minister of religious minorities in Pakistan, can lead the fight for the protection of minorities against oppression, not more: He, the only Christian in the ministerial status in Pakistan, was shot dead on Wednesday morning in the capital Islamabad.
According to police fired volleys of three men on his car as he was by the house of his mother set off to the Ministry. Eye witnesses said a white compact car was waiting for that Bhatti start with his black Toyota. Then the small car had blocked the way, three armed men had got out, had Bhatti driver pulled out of the car and then fired several shots being fired on the car.
Bhatti's niece Mariam, 22, was the first crime scene. She said she had felt the pulse of her uncle, but I can feel nothing. The Pakistani television showed images of cars Bhatti: body shot and disc, at least eight bullets hit the minister. According to police, Bhatti had instructed his bodyguards, despite the concern for his life, the Ministry of waiting for him.
A police spokesman had earlier falsely claimed that Bhatti was accompanied by a police car. Bhatti was taken to a nearby hospital. The doctors declared him dead when he arrived there for his family arrived a little later in the hospital, just as Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack. Indeed, known to the Pakistani Taliban. According to police, the attackers left a leaflet in which they all "enemies of Islam" and to all who request an amendment of the blasphemy law, threatened with death. Several television networks showed the paper.
Bhatti had to die, then, because he had spoken out against this law - a controversial section of the Pakistan Penal Code, which prohibits the insulting of any religion. Last year was sentenced to death a Christian, because she had allegedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Bhatti stood up for this woman and demanded a change of the law because it was misused in disputes in order to denigrate people.
Islamists threatened him, but Bhatti was undeterred. "If I die for my entertainment needs, then so be it," he said defiantly. But his chances of abolishing the controversial law, he was skeptical: "The abolition of the relevant paragraphs of the Pakistan Penal Code, which I would prefer, is not politically feasible," he said in an interview with Daily Buzz World.
Unenforceable in its own ranks, the ruling People's Party PPP. Had yet been any politician who has openly spoken out against the blasphemy law be dropped. had made the former Information Minister Sherry Rahman, the proposed amendments to the blasphemy law, was advised in his own party, "hiding better." Against Bhatti was intrigued, it was said that his ministry should be abolished, its functions are transferred to the provinces.
Fear of the power of the ultra-conservative bent Apparently the government is a secret of the power of the ultra-conservatives, who openly made against Bhatti mood. In 2010 i had Bhatti said after the murder of two Christians, these men had become victims of the blasphemy law - known as the clergy no stopping you said with this statement Bhatti had made himself guilty of blasphemy.
It was like a public call for his assassination. The first prominent victim was in January 2011, the Governor of the Province of Punjab. Salman Taseer, a little religious Muslim and friend by his own admission a "liberal lifestyle," had also been used for Christian and condemned to death for the abolition of the blasphemy law.
He too was shot dead in Islamabad, in broad daylight in one of his own bodyguards. Instead of condemning the act, many people celebrated the murder of Taseer. Attorneys offered the bodyguard free defense, people threw rose petals as he was brought before a judge. At the crime scene, a small market place in Islamabad, had many posters that praised the murderer.
This is also expected in the case Bhatti. Several MPs spoke on Wednesday with World Daily Buzz on the condition that they not be named. Consistent was her assessment: "A large percentage of the population approve of the murder Bhatti." The already plagued by terrorism, natural disasters and economic problems the country is developing dramatically in a dangerous direction.
Inflation reached double-digit percentages, many people find it difficult to afford basic foodstuffs. In this mood promise salvation in the religious extremists, the people - to intimidate and create it with frightening ease, politics and society with violence and threats.
"We are fighting against the oppression of religious minorities in Pakistan, but we must be careful. The threats are increasing." Between the lines he made it sound that he is losing the support of his own government. "It is not easy," he judged his work. Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, minister of religious minorities in Pakistan, can lead the fight for the protection of minorities against oppression, not more: He, the only Christian in the ministerial status in Pakistan, was shot dead on Wednesday morning in the capital Islamabad.
According to police fired volleys of three men on his car as he was by the house of his mother set off to the Ministry. Eye witnesses said a white compact car was waiting for that Bhatti start with his black Toyota. Then the small car had blocked the way, three armed men had got out, had Bhatti driver pulled out of the car and then fired several shots being fired on the car.
Bhatti's niece Mariam, 22, was the first crime scene. She said she had felt the pulse of her uncle, but I can feel nothing. The Pakistani television showed images of cars Bhatti: body shot and disc, at least eight bullets hit the minister. According to police, Bhatti had instructed his bodyguards, despite the concern for his life, the Ministry of waiting for him.
A police spokesman had earlier falsely claimed that Bhatti was accompanied by a police car. Bhatti was taken to a nearby hospital. The doctors declared him dead when he arrived there for his family arrived a little later in the hospital, just as Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack. Indeed, known to the Pakistani Taliban. According to police, the attackers left a leaflet in which they all "enemies of Islam" and to all who request an amendment of the blasphemy law, threatened with death. Several television networks showed the paper.
Bhatti had to die, then, because he had spoken out against this law - a controversial section of the Pakistan Penal Code, which prohibits the insulting of any religion. Last year was sentenced to death a Christian, because she had allegedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Bhatti stood up for this woman and demanded a change of the law because it was misused in disputes in order to denigrate people.
Islamists threatened him, but Bhatti was undeterred. "If I die for my entertainment needs, then so be it," he said defiantly. But his chances of abolishing the controversial law, he was skeptical: "The abolition of the relevant paragraphs of the Pakistan Penal Code, which I would prefer, is not politically feasible," he said in an interview with Daily Buzz World.
Unenforceable in its own ranks, the ruling People's Party PPP. Had yet been any politician who has openly spoken out against the blasphemy law be dropped. had made the former Information Minister Sherry Rahman, the proposed amendments to the blasphemy law, was advised in his own party, "hiding better." Against Bhatti was intrigued, it was said that his ministry should be abolished, its functions are transferred to the provinces.
Fear of the power of the ultra-conservative bent Apparently the government is a secret of the power of the ultra-conservatives, who openly made against Bhatti mood. In 2010 i had Bhatti said after the murder of two Christians, these men had become victims of the blasphemy law - known as the clergy no stopping you said with this statement Bhatti had made himself guilty of blasphemy.
It was like a public call for his assassination. The first prominent victim was in January 2011, the Governor of the Province of Punjab. Salman Taseer, a little religious Muslim and friend by his own admission a "liberal lifestyle," had also been used for Christian and condemned to death for the abolition of the blasphemy law.
He too was shot dead in Islamabad, in broad daylight in one of his own bodyguards. Instead of condemning the act, many people celebrated the murder of Taseer. Attorneys offered the bodyguard free defense, people threw rose petals as he was brought before a judge. At the crime scene, a small market place in Islamabad, had many posters that praised the murderer.
This is also expected in the case Bhatti. Several MPs spoke on Wednesday with World Daily Buzz on the condition that they not be named. Consistent was her assessment: "A large percentage of the population approve of the murder Bhatti." The already plagued by terrorism, natural disasters and economic problems the country is developing dramatically in a dangerous direction.
Inflation reached double-digit percentages, many people find it difficult to afford basic foodstuffs. In this mood promise salvation in the religious extremists, the people - to intimidate and create it with frightening ease, politics and society with violence and threats.
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