19) A Pakistani minister, who had said he was getting death threats because of his stance against the country's
controversial blasphemy law, was shot and killed Wednesday, 3/2/2011
was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's
controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.
But the gunmen found their target and Pakistan's
controversial blasphemy laws claimed another victim.