Kashmiri plotted Pak minister murder

June 29, 2011 13:50

Meanwhile on the Express Tribune, an interesting twist to the Shahbaz Bhatti murder case. Bhatti was the Pakistan minority affairs minister, who was assassinated in March.

An investigation report has revealed that the Ilyas Kashmiri group had crafted the plan to assassinate the former minorities' affairs minister. Bhatti was gunned down by unknown persons in front of his residence in Islamabad in broad daylight on March 3, 2011.

The group had planned to kill Bhatti with the help of Asmatullah Mawaia, the self-proclaimed leader of the Punjabi Taliban, according to a six-page report by the Ministry of Interior, based on the findings of the Joint Investigation Team probing Bhatti's murder case.

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