Pakistani investigators believe that the late Minister for Minorities, Shabhaz Bhatti, a Catholic, was murdered by Al Qaeda terrorists who are now in Dubai. “The investigations into the murder of my brother Shabhaz are finally on the right track: it is the work carried out by the Taliban and Islamic fanatics. Now we are waiting for the capture of the perpetrators of the crime, who are in Dubai,” Paul Bhatti, brother of the late minister, told Vatican’s Fides news agency. “The Minister of Interior, Rehman Malik, has announced an international arrest warrant,” Bhatti said in an interview in which he commented on the results of the inquiry on behalf of the Pakistani government regarding the culprits of the murder. The inquiry pointed out that the murder was planned by “Brigade 313″, the military organization of Al Qaeda, known as “ghost army”. The plan was said to have been carried out by elements of the extremist group ‘Tehrik-e-Islami’, along with a faction of the group ‘Ghazi Force in Islamabad’. Bhatti hoped for a rapid conclusion, with the capture of the perpetrators of the crime, adding it would prove the health of the state of law in Pakistan. He also said they would continue his late brother’s work and mission for the protection of religious minorities throughout the country.
