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LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said the murder of a Catholic Pakistani government minister Wednesday was “absolutely brutal and unacceptable”.
“It was absolutely shocking news,” Cameron told the House of Commons after minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti became the second high-profile opponent of the blasphemy law to be killed in Islamabad.
Cameron said the minister’s murder was “absolutely brutal and unacceptable, and it shows what a huge problem we have in our world with intolerance”.
“I will send not only our condolences but our clearest possible message to the government and people of Pakistan that this is simply unacceptable,” he added.
Earlier, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the leader of the worldwide Anglican church, expressed his shock at the murder and urged Pakistan to protect minorities.
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