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– PAKISTANI MINISTER INJURED IN ATTACK

 

* Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Pakistan’s religious affairs minister, was injured when armed man opened fire on his vehicle wounding him and killing his driver, on Wednesday 09/02/2009 evening, police say.

 

The attack on Hamid Saeed Kazmi took place, close to his office in the Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. The gunman escaped the scene.

 

Muntizar Hassan, a police officer, said that Kazmi had survived the attack but that his driver had been killed. Hamid Saeed Kazmi was said to have been shot in the leg. A bodyguard was also wounded in the attack.

 

Hamid Saeed Kazmi, who belongs to the Barelvi sect of Sufi Islam, has been a vocal critical of the Taliban in Pakistan. He has been working recently with leading clerics to issue a fatwa, declaring suicide bombing un-Islamic (see also – Alamma Haideri  ).

 

Pakistan’s major religious parties quickly moved to condemn the attack on Hamid Saeed Kazmi.
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