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| Pakistan's Minister for Religious Affairs, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, has been injured in a gun attack on his car in the capital, Islamabad, police say. | Pakistan's Minister for Religious Affairs, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, has been injured in a gun attack on his car in the capital, Islamabad, police say. |
| A man believed to be Mr Kazmi's driver was killed in the attack and another passenger injured, said police. | |
| No one has claimed to have carried out the attack. Mr Kazmi has been an outspoken critic of the Taliban. | |
| He was behind a conference in May which denounced the Taliban's suicide bombing tactics as un-Islamic. | He was behind a conference in May which denounced the Taliban's suicide bombing tactics as un-Islamic. |
| "Gunmen sprayed bullets on the minister's car," a police officer who identified himself as Qasim told Reuters news agency. | |
| Television footage showed Mr Kazmi, with a wounded leg, being taken away in an ambulance. There were blood stains on the car's seats and its windows were shattered. | |
| Government hospital chief Shaukat Hameed Kiani said Mr Kazmi's leg had been fractured by a bullet. | |
| "His condition is stable, but he is in a state of shock," he said. |