Pak minister was killed over family rivalry

August 09, 2011 13:22

A report today says that the killing of Pakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti earlier this year was due to family rivalry over property and had no religious motivation.

Bhatti's murder in Islamabad was due to a property dispute between relatives and police concluded the killing was not religiously motivated in their latest report despite the fact that the Punjabi Taliban had claimed responsibility for the assassination.

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