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Archbisop of Canterbury, “Shahbaz Bhatti ‘a martyr'”

Dr Rowan Williams Shahbaz Bhatti died a martyr, says the Archbishop of Canterbury

Mr Bhatti was killed in an ambush by Taliban gunmen as he drove away from his mother’s home on 2 March.

He had been the Pakistan government’s only Christian cabinet minister until his assassination in Islamabad.

The minister was an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws .  ….The law carries a death sentence for anyone who insults Islam. Critics say it has been used to persecute minority faiths.

Those who supported Mr Bhatti’s killing, said Dr Williams, “inhabit a world of fantasy, shot through with paranoid anxiety.”


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