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.
Pakistan TV channels reported that unidentified assailants fired at Pakistan minority affairs minister's car near his residence in Islamabad.
Bhatti was leaving from his house in Sector I-8 in Islamabad when he was attacked.
The minister was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, Geo TV reported.