Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani Martyr November 15, 2011 News News Updates Home » News Updates » 2011 » September » 1 Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani Martyr Posted on: September 1, 2011 From George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center: A lot of the history of the last six and a half decades has at least something to do with the failure of British intelligence to figure out that Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a man whose time was running out just as the British Empire was preparing to divide its crown jewel at Jinnah’s insistence — including the personal history of Shahbaz Bhatti, who was born a generation after Jinnah’s will created Pakistan. The 42-year old Bhatti, a Catholic and Pakistan’s federal minister for religious minorities, was murdered — or, to be more precise, martyred — this past March 2 while being driven to work. His murderer left a note in which he explained that Bhatti had to die because he opposed Pakistan’s blasphemy law, a crude attempt to oppose a form of Islamic sharia on the country. Read it all. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)