Shahbaz Bhatti served as Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs and advocated religious freedom, interfaith harmony and reform. On 2 March 2011, gunmen assassinated him in Islamabad after repeated...
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer publicly supported Asia Bibi and criticized Pakistan’s blasphemy law. On 4 January 2011, one of his own police guards assassinated him in Islamabad.
