Islamabad: Pakistan government is expected to confer posthumously one of the country's highest civilian awards for bravery on slain Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who was lauded by Presiden

Islamabad: The vehicle suspected to have been used in the assassination of Pakistani minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti has been found, a media report said.

Bhatti, a 42-year-old Christian, was shot

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have widened the probe into the assassination of Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti to include members of his security detail and a detained police guard who had

Islamabad: Authorities shut down streets and police marksmen stood guard around Islamabad's main church on Friday ahead of the funeral mass of minister Shahbaz Bhatti, shot dead by suspected Islamic e

Pakistan is being swept toward violent chaos by a growing wave of Islamist extremism, newspapers said on Thursday, a day after Taliban militants killed the country's only Christian government minister.

Gunmen shot dead Pakistan's minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad on Wednesday, doctor Azmat ullah Qureshi, spokesman for the local Shifa hospital said.

Gunmen shot dead Pakistan's minority affairs minister in Islamabad on Wednesday, police and a hospital doctor said, after the Christian politician had complained of death threats.

Pakistan's minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a vocal critic of the controversial blasphemy law, was on Wednesday shot dead by gunmen who ambushed his car near his residence here, the second high-profile politician to be assassinated in nearly two months.

Islamabad: Gunmen shot dead a Catholic Pakistani government minister on Wednesday, after he had vowed to defy death threats following the murder of another politician opposed to an Islamic blasphemy l

Vatican City: The Vatican condemned as 'unspeakable' the murder on Wednesday of a Catholic Pakistani government minister opposed to an Islamic blasphemy law, and called for an end to the persecution o