2 March 2011(2011-03-02) (aged 42) Islamabad, Pakistan
Political party
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
Alma mater
University of the Punjab
Clement Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 1968 – 2 March 2011) was a Pakistani politician and the first Christian Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs.[1] He was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2008 for the Pakistan People's Party.[2] Bhatti became the only Christian member of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's Cabinet on November 2.[3][4] On 2 March 2011, Bhatti was assassinated outside his mother's home by members of the Pakistani Taliban for his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws.[5] In March 2016, his cause for beatification was formally opened by the Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi. He was given the honorary title Servant of God within the Catholic Church.[6][7]
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