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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. | 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. | 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. | "Gunmen sprayed bullets on the minister's car," a police officer who identified himself as Qasim told Reuters news agency. |
| 'State of shock' | |
| 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. | 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. |
| Senior medical official 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. | "His condition is stable, but he is in a state of shock," he said. |
| Shazia Nazir, a doctor at the hospital treating Mr Kazmi, told the AFP news agency that the minister's driver had been brought in dead, with a bullet wound to the head, and that a security guard had been seriously wounded. | |
| Health Minister Aijaz Jhakrani has denied there had been any lapses in security, saying the incident was "a targeted attack", AFP reported. | |
| Mr Kazmi has been a key figure in opposing the Taliban in Pakistan, continuing to carry out reforms of religious schools and working with senior clerics to denounce the militants' tactics. |