Daughter mourns another 'brave' Pakistani victim
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The daughter of a Pakistani politician shot dead for opposing a blasphemy law says this week's assassination of another high-profile critic is a huge loss for Pakistan.
Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated as he sat in a car outside his mother's house in the capital, Islamabad.
The killers left behind Taliban leaflets.
Mr Bhatti, a Christian, had been calling for changes in the controversial law, in the news since November when a court sentenced a Christian mother of four to death for alleged blasphemy.
Under the law, alleged blasphemy against Islam carries the death penalty.
Shehrbano Taseer is the daughter of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province, who was murdered in January.
She tolod Radio Australia's Asia Pacific program high-profile opponents of the blasphemy law, like Shahbaz Bhatti, are being eliminated.
"After my father's assassination, he was one of the few brave men who spoke out and condemned it and was organising a protest and he had many interviews in which he stood by his word, in which he stood by the fact the blasphemy law is being misused.
"And I think that he was targeted."
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