Pakistan Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti Assassinated

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - MARCH 2: A digital scan of a pamphlet reportedly left at the scene of Pakistan's Minorities Minister, Shahbaz Bhatti's assassination on March 2, 2011 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Translated by a local journalist, the pamphlet written by a group Taliban-Al Qaeda linked group from Pakistan's Punjab region reportedly reads, "This is a lesson to the world of infidels crusaders and Jews, and their allies in the Muslim world who they have imposed, especially the infidel system of Pakistan under the leadership of (President) Zadari. . . Infidels and apostates, listen and understand well what is being said. You people have crossed the limit of rebelling against God. You people are validating what has been forbidden and forbidding what has been validated by God and his messenger. . .Any slightest dishonor to the prophet Muhammed, we cannot tolerate . . . In Islamic Sharia, the only punishment for blasphemy is only and only death. . . Either you or us will live in this world . . . You people have become so bold in supporting (amending) laws of blasphemy that you appointed this infidel Chrisitan, Shahbaz Bhatti, to this committee . . . This was a lesson from which you can learn . . . one by one we will send you all to hell." The minister was ambushed in his car shortly after leaving the family home en route to a cabinet meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Leaflets were scattered about the crime scene by a group claiming to be Punjab's Taliban-Al Qaeda warning that if others speak out against Islam they too will meet the same fate. Bhatti, Pakistan's sole Christian minister, is now the second politician to be assassinated for speaking out against the country's blasphemy laws, after Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, was gunned down on January 4, 2011 by a guard in his own security force. (Photo by Warrick Page/Getty Images)