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.

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

Islamabad: Here are some key facts on Pakistan's blasphemy law following the killing on Wednesday of a Catholic government minister who had vowed to defy death threats over his opposition to the legis

- Wednesday March 2, 2011: Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti is shot dead in his car in Islamabad. A Roman Catholic, Bhatti had opposed Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law.

- January 4, 2011